Hedi Pope (1920-present) is a dancer, choreographer, and performer who founded the professional, modern dance company CODA (Contemporary Dancers of Alexandria). Born in Vienna, she studied the arts with Hedy Pfundmayr and Grete Wiesenthal performing at the Burgtheatre and in a film called Silhouette before coming to the U.S. in 1939. Here, she performed in a Broadway cabaret revue called From Vienna sponsored by Irving Berlin and George Kaufman. Beginning in 1947 and lasting for thirty-five years, she ran her own dance studio, CODA, in Washington D.C.
