Dance Technique. Katherine Dunham. Missouri Historical Society. One of many labels given to Katherine Dunham is the Black Matriarch of Modern Dance. Although the title is meant to honor Miss Dunham, she has expressed …
Katherine Dunham €” Infoplease.com … of the public and exerted tremendous influence on the evolution of modern dance. … 1963) at New York's Metropolitan Opera and The Magic of Katherine Dunham (1987) for the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater.
Multimedia Guide to Katherine Dunham — Great Dance Weblog DeFrantz, Village Voice . - "Katherine Dunham — Pioneer of Black Modern Dance," by Mark Feeney, Boston Globe, reprinted in San Francisco Chronicle . - "Dancer Katherine Dunham Dies at 96," Associated …
Katherine Dunham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia … as an art form and also the first time that the special elements of American modern dance appeared outside America." "The tour was a grand success, and newspapers proclaimed that Katherine Dunham was …
St. Louis Public Library - Katherine Dunham Matriarch of Black Dance While studying anthropology at the University of Chicago in the 1930s, Katherine Dunham still found time to continue her studies in modern dance and to open her first dance school.
Great Performances: Free To Dance - Biographies - Katherine Dunham … of modern dance, her fieldwork began her investigations into a vocabulary of movement that would form the core of the Katherine Dunham Technique. What Dunham gave modern dance was …
SheLives … African American modern dancer, choreographer, and beloved teacher of jazz and modern dance … Walter Nicks studied dance at the Katherine Dunham School in New York beginning about 1945 under Miss …