Katherine Mary Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist. Dunham had one of the...

The Katherine Dunham Company, a troupe of dancers, singers, actors and musicians, was the first African-American modern dance company. Founded in Chicago...

2018) was an American dancer and actress who was a member of the Katherine Dunham Company, and the first African American ballerina to perform with the...

in arguably the screen's most bravura dance sequence, Fats Waller, Katherine Dunham and her dancers, and Dooley Wilson. Stormy Weather takes its title...

Porgy and Bess. Clarke began her career as a principal dancer with the Katherine Dunham Company and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and as an actress...

Minns and Leon James, Frankie Manning, Norma Miller, Dawn Hampton, and Katherine Dunham. Dramatic Jazz Dance performed on the show stage was promoted by Jack...

Ladies, Kind Gentlemen (1970). She was also a notable member of the Katherine Dunham Company and performed African dance with Syvilla Fort. Chinn was born...

at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She also studied dance at the Katherine Dunham School of Dance and Theatre in New York City. In the late 1950s and...

period (c. 1923–1946), choreographers Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Katherine Dunham, Charles Weidman, and Lester Horton sought to develop distinctively...

McKinney, Billie Holiday, Midge Williams, Lena Horne, and dancers such as Katherine Dunham, Bill Robinson, The Nicholas Brothers, Charles 'Honi' Coles, Leonard...

Notable people included: Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) trained in ballet, founded Ballet Negre in 1936 and then the Katherine Dunham Dance Company based in...

School of Performing Arts). Kitt began her career as a member of the Katherine Dunham Company in 1943 and remained a member of the troupe until 1948. A talented...

African American dancer Katherine Dunham who was then Artist-in-Residence at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Dunham partnered with SIUE's Experiment...

teacher of jazz and modern dance. He was a certified master teacher of Katherine Dunham technique. He was professionally active for nearly 60 years. Nicks...

95. Katherine Dunham Technique – Library of Congress A 2-½ hour presentation of the dance technique of anthropologist-choreographer Katherine Dunham. Funded...

For several years he was a partner of Katherine Dunham in her dance company. He was among the teachers of Dunham Technique at her school. Savage became...

choreograph and perform. Katherine Dunham was a significant contributor to the involvement of Black women in ballet. In 1931, Dunham helped establish Ballet...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Katherine Dunham Company. Hollywood and Broadway have also provided opportunities for...

House Un-American Activities Committee hearing. The film co-stars Katherine Dunham who acted as the film's choreographer. The film stars Silvana Mangano...

writer, actress and dancer. She is a former principal dancer with the Katherine Dunham, Agnes de Mille and Talley Beatty dance companies and has performed...

org. May 11, 2010. Retrieved December 21, 2020. Selections from the Katherine Dunham Collection. "Stormy Weather". Library of Congress. Retrieved December...

went to New York to study dancing where she got a scholarship at the Katherine Dunham School of Dance. To avoid typecasting because of her name, she became...

in the 1950s to join in a world tour with the Afroamerican dancer Katherine Dunham and her Dance Company. Julito Collazo is one of a handful of Cuban...

married his second wife Julie Robinson (1928–2024), a dancer with the Katherine Dunham Company who was of Jewish descent. They had two children: Gina and...

opened at the theater in July 1949, running for three months. The Katherine Dunham Company performed at the Broadway in 1950, followed by Olsen and Johnson's...

him, when he saw Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo on a school trip and Katherine Dunham Dance Company's "Tropical Review" on solitary trips to the Los Angeles...

Jamison, Ulysses Dove, Jerome Robbins, Bill T. Jones, Garth Fagan, Katherine Dunham, Hans van Manen and Carmen de Lavallade. Robinson has also performed...

that led to severe injuries or, in some cases, deaths. In the 1930s, Katherine Dunham filmed the ladja matches. At that time, wrestling was not a central...

became a literary agent. As an agent, he represented James Baldwin, Katherine Dunham, Harlen Ellison, Richard Fariña, Ted Gottfried, James Gunn, and M....

Some notable Americans who have Malagasy ancestry include Andy Razaf, Katherine Dunham, Regina M. Anderson, William H. Hastie, George Schuyler and Philippa...