Vera Maletić was a dance pedagogue, choreographer, and dance theorist – Columbus. She was the daughter of Ana Maletić, a renowned dance pedagogue, historian, and choreographer. She graduated from classical grammar school in Zagreb in 1946 and earned a degree in art history from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1953. Her dance education began in 1934 at the A. Maletić School of Artistic Physical Culture. In the 1950s, she specialized in dance pedagogy at the R. Laban Studio for the Art of Movement in Addlestone. In 1980, she earned a doctorate from Ohio State University in Columbus with a dissertation titled On the Aesthetic and Aesthetic Dimensions of Dance: A Methodology for Researching Dance Style. In Zagreb, she taught at the State Music School from 1954 to 1959 and at the School of Rhythm and Dance from 1959 to 1966. From 1966 to 1977, she was a teacher at the Studio for the Art of Movement in Addlestone (renamed Laban’s Centre for Movement and Dance in London in 1975). She became a visiting professor in 1977 and a full professor in 1980 at the Department of Dance at Ohio State University, where she taught until her retirement in 2000, after which she was named professor emeritus. Her teaching covered the fundamentals of Laban’s movement analysis, choreutics, eukinetics, the history of postmodern dance, and, among the first in the USA, videodance—choreographic design using film and video technology. She also researched evolving approaches to dance and led projects on its computer documentation. Her choreographic and research work, as well as her interest in experimentation and the abstract design of relationships in the visualization of musical forms by contemporary composers, were avant-garde in many aspects. In 1962, together with her mother, she founded the Studio for Contemporary Dance Company in Zagreb and served as its artistic director until 1966.