“Eventually the party would assemble itself somewhere, more than likely around the corner at Chloe Scott’s house, to take on victuals and cheap Chianti. Chloe is at all odds the most glamorous woman I’ve ever known. A professional dancer and dance teacher, red-headed and fiery, a real knock-out and a woman of the world, Chloe Keighly-Peach of the British gentry by birth, daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy, came to America, to New York, as a girl, during the Blitz, and had stayed on to become, in the early 1950s, part of Jackson Pollock’s notoriously high-spirited East Hampton social circle. Along the way she married a dashing young naturalist, and spent a year on the Audubon Society’s houseboat in the Everglades, fell briefly under the spell of a Reichian therapist and basted herself in an orgone box, and at last, divorced, made her way west to settle in as one of the reigning free spirits on Perry Lane. At Chloe’s, anything could happen.”
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Chloe Keighly-Peach Scott is survived by her daughter Jennifer Scott Teton and Jennifer’s husband John Teton and their daughters Sage and Zoe of Portland, Oregon and their son Ben and his wife Toree, the parents of Chloe’s great-grandson Wylder of Felton, California; her brother Peter Keighly-Peach and his wife Dee of Norfolk, Virginia and their children David, Katie, and Tracey and her husband Tim Adams of Louisville, Kentucky; Peter Scott’s son Jonathan and his family of Provincetown, Massachusetts; many in-laws, nieces, and nephews in the Scott and Norman families; and her former husband Gurney Norman of Lexington, Kentucky.
Chloe Scott lived in our neighborhood for decades, a native of England, she enjoyed a life of dance, as a choreographer, dance teacher, Feddenkrais movement therapist, and founder of the Dymaxion Moving Company dance troupe.…
A professional dancer, Chloe Scott, lived in the University Park neighborhood for many decades. This video is a celebration of her life and dance career.
You can still show your support by sending flowers directly to the family, or by planting a memorial tree in the memory of Chloe Keighly-Peach Scott
