Kathy Stanford Grant

Kathleen "Rusty" Stanford Grant (1 August 192127 May 2010), was an African American dancer, choreographer, and Pilates instructor.

Early life and education Kathleen Stanford Grant, also known as Rusty Stanford, was born Kathleen Brown in Boston, Massachusetts on 1 August 1921. She gained the surname Grant when she married the attorney Jim Grant in 1963.

Grant toured Europe, the Middle east, Africa, and South America with Claude Marchant from 1950 to 1954. The other was Lolita San Miguel.

Grant used this experience and worked with Carola Trier at her Pilates Studio before becoming director of the Pilates Gym at the Henri Bendel Department Store. She went on to join the faculty of NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Grant also travelled extensively across the US teaching Pilates.

Other activities Grant was administrator and company manager of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and director of the Clark Center for the Performing Arts.

She was also a member of the Dance Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Death Grant died on 27 May 2010, aged 88.