CONSTANCE OLD

OLD--Constance. An avid scholar, researcher and beautiful dancer, Constance Old died on July 12th in New York City, her home of 41 years. She was 94. Her careers expanded from landscape design and horticulture to historian of music and dance iconography. Constance established The Performing Arts Index of Music and Dance for The Metropolitan Museum of Art in conjunction with the Research Center for Music Iconography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She served on the board of the Dance Perspectives Foundation, which published the International Encyclopedia of Dance (Oxford University Press), and on the board of the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation. Devoted to her family, she was the sister of Lloyd John Old, MD and is survived by her three children, six grandchildren, and four great-grand- children, as well as their respective spouses and her many friends across the globe. In lieu of flowers, please direct any gifts to The New York Public Library, nypl.org/site/Donation or The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation, www.isadoraduncan.org.