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Director of the American Square Dance Group
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Commerce, USA
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New York City, USA
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63 years
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William Leonidas Mayo
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Margot Mayo (May 30, 1910 – May 1974) was an American dance instructor and collector of folk music.
Margot Mayo was born Margaret Melba Mayo on May 30, 1910 in Commerce, Texas, one of eight children of William Leonidas Mayo, the founding president of East Texas Normal College.
She was a key figure in the 1940s New York City revival of folk dancing and square dancing.She was founder of the American Square Dance Group in 1934 and editor of its magazine, Promenade, and published the manual The American Square Dance in 1943.She and her American Square Dance Group perform on the 1947 Pete Seeger documentary To Hear Your Banjo Play.
Margot Mayo died on May 1974 in New York City.
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