“We do try to keep the Dunham legacy alive in the minds of people,” said Leverne Backstrom, board chairman of the Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities. An ice cream social was held ...

As I have been telling you for the past few months, your Missouri History Museum is busy putting together an extraordinary, once-in-a-lifetime exhibit on dance icon Katherine Dunham. The exhibit will ...

The dancer in translation : Baker's coauthored narratives -- The dancer as translator : Dunham's ethnographic memoirs -- Performing within primitivism : Baker on the French silent screen -- Cinematic ...

Kaiso, a term of praise that is the calypso equivalent of bravo, is a fitting title for this definitive and celebratory collection of writings by and about Katherine Dunham, the legendary African ...

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Katherine Dunham, often hailed as the Matriarch of Black Dance, brought African cultures to American dance, like the Haitian dance and Rada traditions that inspired Yanvalou by composer Beth Denisch.

Teacher Patrick Moore had a vision to bring the brilliance of Katherine Dunham to Lundstrum Performing Arts and to the Twin Cities. Credit: Courtesy of Lundstrum Performing Arts Two and a half years ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Katherine Dunham, a pioneering dancer and choreographer, anthropologist, author and civil rights activist who abandoned Broadway decades ago to teach culture in one of America's ...