Birth: 1961 Death: 2024 Cynthia “Cindy” Pepper lived a beautiful life filled with love, passion, curiosity, creativity and optimism. Cynthia devoted her life to family and creative pursuits.She passed peacefully surrounded by her loving family and holding her husband’s hand.
Cynthia was born to Maggie Weiss and Sanford Pepper, the owner of a 4th generation business in Salt Lake City, where she spent her formative years. Influenced by her mother’s family legacy of Fantasy Records and the Blackhawk Nightclub, she chose a career in the arts.Cynthia began her performance career with Virginia Tanner’s Children’s Dance Theatre at the University of Utah prior to the age of three.
She performed around the world with Virginia and at the age of eight danced at the White House for the president.Graduating with a BFA in Dance from California Institute of the Arts, Cynthia performed with Bella Lewitsky Company at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.Shortly after, Cynthia was enamored with the beauty of Marin County where she relocated.
She spent many years teaching dance to mostly children at Marin Ballet and Marin Dance Theatre and choreographing and producing dance-related events and dance films, writing books, scripts and generally being creative. Cynthia received an MA in Creative Arts from San Francisco State University and continued to produce dance, film and art projects, mostly in the Bay Area. She created outreach dance programs to bring live musicians into the schools throu.