In 1932, with fellow Bodenwieser student
Jeanette Rutherston, Dubsky co-founded the Rutherston-Dubsky School in
London. She moved to the
Philippines in 1937, to dance and teach. She founded the Manila Ballet Moderne during her time there. Dubsky was also an accomplished visual artist and her paintings of
Manila during the
Japanese occupation were published in
Life magazine. Her husband later published a book of her watercolor paintings,
Manila 1944-1945 As Trudl Saw It (1994), about those wartime experiences. They left the Philippines in 1946, but her husband returned several summers to conduct the
Manila Symphony Orchestra; in 1967 both Zippers were honored for their contributions to the arts in Manila.,
Los AngelesDubsky continued as a teacher and choreographer throughout her life, including at her studio in
Brooklyn, at
Erwin Piscator's theatre workshop in New York, at the
Chicago Conservatory of Music, with the North Shore Dance Group, and later at the
University of California, Los Angeles. == Personal life and legacy ==