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Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck

Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck (January 8, 1908, Kiev, Russian Empire – April 23, 2006, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania) was a pioneer in modern dance, dance pedagogy and Labanotation. Described by ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' as a "modern-dance innovator and educator", she founded the Philadelphia Dance Academy in 1944, and was a director and instructor there for three decades.

She also became known for her advocacy work, urging parents and policymakers to place as much value on the arts in education as they did on mathematics and science.

"Every time you move around when you are alone, you perform a soliloquy at a very intimate level. You would probably not use similar movements in public. Human movement reveals things about personality that your tongue will never say. The way people move can tell us if they like to live in a large or small space, whether they are impatient, whether they are aggressive, whether they have initiative, drive, enthusiasm. I say there's a transfer from disciplining the body in dance to disciplining the mind in math class."

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