Katherine Mary Dunham (22 June 1909 - 21 May 2006) was an African-American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, author, educator and activist who was trained as an anthropologist Her father was an African-American Business man, and her mother a woman of mixed race, i.e. French-Canadian and Native American. She has been called the Matriarch and Queen Mother of Black Dance, and had one of the most successful dance careers in American and European theater of the 20th century. Wikipedia
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KDCAH Background The Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities are a non-profit, multi-disciplinary arts organization founded by dance legend Katherine Dunham. www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/kdunham/
New York's Carnegie Hall was filled to capacity on the night of January 15, 1979, when Katharine Dunham (b. 1910 - d. 2006 ) was presented with that year's Albert Schweitzer Music Award "for a life's work dedicated to music and devoted to humanity.&q www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=show...
Born in Chicago, and raised in Joliet, Illinois, Katherine Dunham did not begin formal dance training until her late teens. www.pbs.org/wnet/freetodance/biographies/dunham.html
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Katherine Dunham revolutionized American dance in the 1930's by going to the roots of black dance and ritual and transforming them into significant artistic choreography that speaks to all. www.wic.org/bio/kdunham.htm