Classes have been offered continuously in New York City (until 2002) since 1912 when Florence Fleming Noyes opened her first studio in Carnegie Hall. In 1921 she founded two camps in Portland, Connecticut: Shepherd’s Nine for women, and the Junior School with separate programs for children, families, and men.

Before her death in 1928 she had established a technique, even more pertinent today; created a school in New York with branches across the country; prepared teachers for the fine art of sharing rhythm and danced what she believed: even barefoot on the steps of the U.S. Treasury for women’s rights.