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of dance. Senia Russakoff certainly strengthened the ballet tradition in Boston in the 1920s. The Braggiotti sisters, Miriam Winslow, and Hans Weiner, however, offered solid training in the emerging art of expressive dance and worked intimately with a community of both interested amateurs and aspiring professional dancers. They were also influential in the national scene, where they shared their work as choreographers and their philosophies as dance educators. I have focused my research on these three schools and concluded with some broad discussion of their influence in the Boston dance community into the 1950s and beyond. This history represents a window into Boston's dance heritage, and it has been a great pleasure unearthing the stories of these regional pioneers.