Betty Meredith-Jones

Meredith-Jones was born in Aberdare, the daughter of William Meredith Jones and Ellen Ada Jones.[1] Her father was a surgeon-dentist for the Aberdare Education Authority.[2] She was presented to Princess Elizabeth in 1939, during the future queen's tour of Wales.[3][4]

Meredith-Jones trained in dance with Rudolf von Laban, and with the Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics.[5] She was a graduate of the Chelsea College of Physical Education.[6] She earned a master's degree at Columbia University.[7] In the 1960s she studied Laban movement analysis with Warren Lamb.[8]

Meredith-Jones taught dance and physical education courses,[2] and choreographed shows for the Salisbury Arts Centre,[5] before 1952, when she moved to the United States to teach movement classes.[9][10] She created a rehabilitation program at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, promoting movement training for addressing Parkinson's disease.[11] She taught at Teachers College, Columbia University,[7] Oregon State University,[12] Stanford University,[13] the University of California, Berkeley,[14] Skidmore College,[15][16] Duke University,[17] and the New School for Social Research.[18] She also consulted on symbolic movement in liturgical contexts,[19] and taught movement classes for older women.[20][21]

• "Understanding Movement" (1955)[22]

Meredith-Jones lived in Rhossili in her later years.[7] She died in 1996, at the age of 87, at Singleton Hospital in Swansea.[23] There is a collection of her papers in the National Resource Centre for Dance at the University of Surrey.[24]