Dorothy Toy, who beginning in the 1930s danced her way across stages and the occasional film set with striking energy, weathering the hostility toward Japanese-Americans during World War II even as her parents were sent to an internment camp, died on July 10 at her home in Oakland, Calif. She was 102.

Her daughter, Dorlie Fong, confirmed her death.

Ms. Toy, whose married name was Dorothy Toy Fong, worked for much of her career with Paul Wing; they billed themselves as Toy and Wing and played prominent houses in the United States and abroad. According to “Dancing Through Life, The Dorothy Toy Story,” a 2017 documentary by Rick Quan, in 1939 they became the first Asian-Americans to play the London Palladium. They were in England when World War II broke out in Europe.

For that engagement and others, they billed themselves as “Chinese dance stylists” or a “Chinese-American dance team” or even “the Chinese Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers,” but only Mr. Wing was Chinese. Ms. Toy, born in the United States, was of Japanese heritage.