Real name: Deborah London Hoffman

American dancer, choreographer and teacher.
Born c.1921.
Died November 17, 2017 (age of 96) Mount Horeb, Wisconsin.
She taught Baltimore-area students for more than six decades. She was the Head of the Dance Department of Baltimore Community College.
She began dancing at the age of five and studied at the Peabody Preparatory School to study Dalcroze Eurhythmics. She began teaching dance in her home as a teenager and in 1939, she established the Deborah London School of Dance in Baltimore. She taught ballet, musical theater, jazz as well as gymnastics and acrobatics.
Some of her many illustrious students included Maxine Fox, producer of “Grease” and other Broadway musicals, and Tali Makell, conductor of of the New York Chamber Orchestra.