Victoria Finlayson joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1984 and danced with them until 1992, receiving a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) in 1989. She then headed to California, and from 1992 to 2020 she performed with the Lit Moon Theatre Company (Santa Barbara) while earning an MA in Dramatic Literature and History from UCSB, teaching and choreographing, receiving several local theater awards, and raising three delightful sons. She recently followed her love of fiber arts to a historic mill town in New Hampshire, where she now lives and works.