Margaret, Willy and Denis Peploe with Merle Taylor and friends at the British Red Cross Fundraising Pageant, Kirkcudbright, September, 1918
Margaret Morris and J.D. Fergusson, Glasgow, 1950s
Margaret Morris was a dancer, choreographer, artist and teacher, and a pioneering figure in the development of modern dance in Britain. Born in 1891, London, she trained from an early age but rejected the constraints of classical ballet, developing instead a freer, more expressive approach to movement. In 1910, she opened her first school in London, and over the following decades formalised her ideas into the Margaret Morris Movement, an innovative system that united dance, design, music and physical training through principles of rhythm, harmony and natural motion.
