Chicago modern dancer.

Diana Huebert was born in Chicago in 1899, the daughter of a local ballroom dancing master. Under her birth name, Josephine Campbell, she first studied and performed classical ballet. However, in 1924, after seeing Isadora Duncan perform at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Huebert was inspired to join the dance movement labeled “modern” or “contemporary,” and thereafter worked and studied to develop her own free style.

In Paris, Huebert briefly studied with Raymond Duncan, brother of Isadora, and then traveled throughout Europe observing and absorbing techniques of the new free forms. She returned to engagements in New York before permanently settling in Chicago. She taught and produced dances at various schools and colleges, kept a private studio in the city, all the while performing and occasionally lecturing.

Huebert retired from performing in 1969 and spent the rest of her life studying and publicizing the esoteric work of her husband, Chicago architect and designer, Abel Faidy, who had died in 1965. In attempting to illuminate and foster interest in Faidy’s mathematical approach to proportion, she founded The Society of The Golden Section, which produced newsletters, articles, lectures and exhibitions regarding her husband’s work.

Diana Huebert died in Chicago in 1983.