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The Magic of Katherine Dunham Performer, anthropologist, choreographer, director, producer, author, essayist, educator, and humanist Katherine Dunham was born in Chicago. She studied dance with Ludmila Speranzeva and Vera Mirova. She received her bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Chicago, which later would prove so valuable in her construction of a technique and ...
Dunham’s Data is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC AH/R012989/1, 2018-2022), under the direction of Kate Elswit (PI, University of London, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Harmony Bench (CI, The Ohio State University). We are thrilled that our team — Bench, Elswit, Antonio Jimenez-Mavillard, and Tia-Monique Uzor — is recipient of the 2021 Award for ...
Katherine Dunham entame ses études primaires à la Beale School de Joliet, ... The Dance Performances of Josephine Baker, Zora Neale Hurston, and Katherine Dunham », Theatre Journal, Vol. 55, No. 3, octobre 2003, p. 433-450 (lire en ligne), ... « Katherine Dunham's Dance as Public Anthropology », New Series, Vol. 112, No. 4 ...
21 de may. de 2006 · In 1931, Miss Dunham met one of America’s most highly regarded theatrical designers, John Pratt, forming a powerful personal and creative team that lasted until his death in the 1986. They married in 1949 to adopt their daughter, Marie-Christine, an 18 month-old French child. Dunham’s first school was in Chicago.
23 de may. de 2018 · Katherine Dunham. 1910–2006. Dancer, anthropologist, social worker, activist, author. Katherine Dunham's long and remarkable life spanned the fields of anthropology, dance, theater, and inner city social work.As an anthropologist, Dunham studied and lived among the peoples of Haiti and other Caribbean islands; as a dancer and choreographer she combined "primitive" Caribbean dances with ...
Später wurde die Tanzgruppe in Katherine Dunham Dance Company umbenannt. 1945 eröffnete Dunham die Dunham School of Dance and Theatre. Eine ihrer berühmtesten Schülerinnen war Eartha Kitt. 1963 wurde sie als erste Afroamerikanerin Choreographin an der Metropolitan Opera in New York.
21 de may. de 2006 · In high school, Katherine Dunham joins the Terpsichorean Club and begins to learn a kind of free-style modern dance based on ideas of Jaques-Dalcroze and Rudolf von Laban. At fourteen, to help raise money for her church, she organizes a "cabaret party." She is the producer, director, and star of the entertainment. 1928
