Maud Allan (1873-1956) was a pianist-turned-actor, dancer and choreographer who is remembered for her "famously impressionistic mood settings". Her quivering arms and fingertips were in part a psychosomatic reaction to a scandal surrounding her brother Theodore Durrant, hanged in 1898 for the sensational murder of two women in San Francisco. Allan never recuperated from the trauma of this event which had an effect on her for the rest of her life.