 Additionally, she was an assistant designer to Heinz Condella at the New York City Opera and danced in Merce Cunningham's company.It is the integration of these various skills and talents that have enabled her to produce complex and multi-layered performance art pieces.After settling back in New York in 1953, her social circle included John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Sari Dienes, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.