Diane Gray was Associate Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company and Director of the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance until 1997. A former principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Ms. Gray performed with the company for sixteen years, dancing and teaching throughout the world. During the 1980's she choreographed and performed for her own company "Dances by Diane Gray" before accepting Martha Graham's invitation to head her school in New York. Most recently, Ms. Gray resides in Ohio and has split her time between guest residencies at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, VA, and at the Escola de Danca do Conservatorio Nacional in Lisbon, Portugal. She taught Dance History at Case Western Reserve University in the Spring, 2001, semester. Ms. Gray continues to choreograph and to stage works for various dance companies. Professionally, Ms. Gray has served as Chairman of the Commission on Accreditation for the National Association of Schools of Dance, Founding President of the Emergency Fund for Student Dancers in New York, and member of the Performing Arts Advisory Commission for the New York City Board of Education. She has served as a jurist at several interenational competitions, and was on the advisory boards for the Dance Magazine Foundation and the Dance Notation Bureau. Ms. Gray received her B.S. degree in Dance from the Juilliard School, studying with Martha Graham, Louis Horst, Antony Tudor, and others. She received her M.S. degree in Education from Hunter College and actually survived student teaching at PS 158 in Manhattan.