Cynthia “Cindy” Pepper lived a beautiful life filled with love, passion, curiosity, creativity and optimism. Cynthia dedicated her life to family and creative pursuits. She passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family, holding her husband’s hand. Cynthia was born to Maggie Weiss and Sanford Pepper, a 4th generation business owner in Salt Lake City, where she spent her formative years. Influenced by her mother’s family legacy of Fantasy Records and Blackhawk Nightclub, she chose to pursue a career in the arts. Cynthia began her performing career with Virginia Tanner’s Children’s Dance Theatre at the University of Utah before she was three years old. She performed with Virginia all over the world and at age eight, she danced in the White House for the President. After graduating with a BFA in Dance from the California Institute of the Arts, Cynthia performed with the Bella Lewitsky Company at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Shortly thereafter, Cynthia fell in love with the beauty of Marin County, where she moved. She taught dance for many years, primarily to children, at Marin Ballet and Marin Dance Theatre, and choreographed and produced dance-related events and dance films, wrote books, scripts, and was generally creative. Cynthia earned an MA in Creative Arts from San Francisco State University and continued to produce dance, film, and art projects, primarily in the Bay Area. She created outreach dance programs to bring live musicians to schools in the Bay Area, and taught thousands of children in over thirty world dance forms. She estimated that she taught over 8,000 students. Cynthia also created 14 original short dance films for television, the Internet, and international film festivals. Along with her producing partner, Melinda Darlington-Bach, she has produced Emmy-winning fashion shows, performances, and short films for Disney, Nickelodeon, and Sesame Street. Cynthia has exhibited her oil, acrylic, and collage multimedia paintings extensively in galleries over the past decade and her artwork graces many homes. A portion of her creative legacy can be found at CynthiaPepper.com. In 1990, Cynthia married Val Hornstein, a softball-playing attorney. In addition to her love of the arts, Cynthia made her family her top priority. She took great pride in raising two beautiful daughters, creating a loving home for her family, and having the love of hundreds of friends. Cynthia’s life was taken by incurable metastatic kidney cancer that she fought for over four years with courage, determination, and grace. She lived a full life during that battle. Cynthia is survived by her husband of 34 years, Val Dawson Hornstein, her daughters Olivia “Sunbeam” Dora Hornstein and Rose “Rosebud” Sarah Hornstein, her siblings Lisa Pepper-Satkin and Mark (Margaret) Pepper, and her mother J. Maggie Weiss. In lieu of flowers, please make donations in honor of Cynthia’s life and memory to Congregation Rodef Sholom (San Rafael, CA) and the UCSF Medical Center.