Allegra Fuller Snyder
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Family
Snyder was the daughter of noted architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller and his wife Anne Hewlett.
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Career
Snyder pioneered the field of Dance Ethnography, and defined a dance ethnologist as "...one who is concerned with studying the process of dance in culture." She went on to state that "This field of investigation has been the major focus of my life and work for the last thirty-plus years." She was Director of the Graduate Program in Dance Ethnology at UCLA, as well as chairing the Department of Dance. She retired in 1991. She previously taught at the California Institute of the Arts, and Naropa University.
Documentaries
Snyder also directed several documentaries on dance practices around the world.