who preferred socializing to work. In March 1940, Huara and More fled France and arrived in New York City. During World War II, Nin set More up with a printing press in the United States, but the business failed due to his mismanagement. Huara ran a dance studio in New York, where she taught students like the musicologist Rosa Alarco. At the end of the war, the couple returned to Paris, where Huara remained a fixture among the avant-garde circles, before having to withdraw from activities due to illness and loss of her sight. Death and legacy Huara died in Paris in 1986. Huara was the central character in a trilogy of novels by Carlos Calderón Fajardo, La noche humana which focus on the Peruvian expatriate community of Paris who were political leftists. In 2017, Revista Vuelapluma (volume 10), a journal from the Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades of Los Olivos published a chronicle of Huara's life by the journalist Pablo Paredes. References Citations Bibliography 1900 births 1986 deaths People from Cusco Peruvian female dancers Peruvian choreographers Dance teachers Peruvian emigrants to Argentina