Fonds F0356 - Yoné Young fonds

Yoné Kvietys was born in Kaunas Lithuania on August 21, 1924. Initially interested in ballet, she later studied under Rudolf von Laban, and later Boris Volkoff. Young moved to Toronto in 1948 as a political and cultural refugge, teaching at McGill University and the University of Toronto and performing in places including New York and Chicago. She married Ray Young in 1966 and moved to Calgary, Alberta.

Young taught movement and modern dance to actors at the Department of Drama, University of Calgary. She also received three yearly federal grants that employed up to ten dancers in creative dance summer projects. This work led directly to the formation of Co-Motion, a local experimental dance collective.

Young later enrolled in the Alberta College of Art, becoming a well-known artist in paint, stained glass and mixed media. Young died on July 17, 2011.