Sylvia Gold (Rubinstein) was born November 10, 1923. Her parents, Joseph and Fannie (Botvinick) had come to the United States as teenagers. They first met on the boat from Russia. When her parents came to America they rejected religious tradition and embraced a politically leftist philosophy, which Sylvia continued to embrace throughout her life. Her identity was Jewish. Her religion was music, dance and art. Sylvia grew up in the Bronx, living for a number of years in the Sholem Aleichem House as a neighbor to Bessie Myerson who became the first Jewish Miss America. She began taking dance at age 5, enrolling in the Denishawn School taught by Ruth St. Denis. She then enrolled in the studio of Isadora Duncan's sister, Elizabeth, where she began her Duncan training. Shortly thereafter, Irma Duncan (one of Isadora Duncan's adopted children called the "Isadorables") accepted Sylvia as a student. She studied with Irma for the next seven years. Sylvia attended Music and Art High School and then went on to NYU, graduating in 1944 with a degree in Music Education. She taught music initially, but the majority of her adult years were spent teaching the Duncan technique she had learned as a child. Sylvia married Ben Gold in 1945 and they had three children together. They lived in California for three years and Rome, Italy for one year while Ben was on a Fulbright. They settled in Concord in 1958, more specifically in Conantum, which was Concord's first housing development and whose residents were mostly affiliated with Lincoln Lab in Lexington and M.I.T. Sylvia greatly enjoyed the feeling of community that being a member of Conantum brought. During the time Sylvia was raising her children, she taught many of the neighborhood and Concord children Duncan Dance. She continued to study the modern dance techniques of the day such as Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey. In 1977 Sylvia began to commute to New York City to work with other former students of Duncan Dance, learning new choreography to dances that she had never known. The culmination of this was a performance at the Riverside Church where she performed as one of the soloists. Sylvia created her own dance company, The Isadora Duncan Repertory Dance Company that performed in many venues in the Boston area including Wheelock College, MIT, and the Museum of National Heritage. She was very glad that many of the dances have been preserved on video and can be viewed on YouTube. Sylvia was into the health craze long before it became one. There is a story of her 5-year-old daughter holding up a box of cereal in the supermarket and calling out asking "Mom, is there poison in this one?" She asked people to stop smoking near her at restaurants in the late 1960's. She was not afraid to hold opinions that were contrary to the majority and she usually ended up being right. She was against the Viet Nam war very early on, and she believed in decriminalizing drugs (which may turn out to be right in the future). Once she accepted her daughter as gay, in 1978, she declared, "Well, the only thing to do is legalize gay marriage." Sylvia was a devoted daughter, wife, mother and grandmother. She never stopped missing her husband, Ben, who died in 2005. She was opinionated but her love was unconditional. She leaves her two daughters, Laura and Lisa, along with their partners, Colette Doyle and Karen James. She also leaves her two grandchildren Rebecca and Matthew Gold-Doyle. She was in love with her two grand dogs, Luna and Henry. Her brother Paul and her son Daniel predeceased her. Cemetery: Private interment in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts. Service: Memorial Service will be held on Sunday, March 17th at 3 PM in Congregation Kerem Shalom, 659 Elm Street, Concord, Massachusetts.