Kurt Graff (1910–1993), a choreographer and dancer, was part of a professional dance duo with his wife, Grace Cornell Graff. During the 1930s, Graff and Cornell established a ballet company, Graff Ballet, and founded the Little Concert House, a dance studio, dance theater, and home, in Chicago, Illinois. In the late 1940s, the Graffs moved to Hopkinton, New Hampshire and turned a colonial home into an artists' colony. The property was known as Meadow Hearth Theatre Art Center.