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Gerda Geddes and Sophia Delza: Forgotten Pioneers of Tai Chi in the West

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The Forgotten (Female) Pioneers of Tai Chi in the West | FIGHTLAND
Gerda Geddes (left). Photo courtesy of her daughter, Harriet Devlin / Sophia Delza (right). Photo courtesy of the NY Public Library

“Delza was essentially erased from the popular memory. We could only have Bruce Lee and the ‘kung fu craze’ as a new and exciting phenomenon if we all kind of pretended that Delza hadn’t already shown us many of these things 15 years earlier.”