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	Katherine Dunham - MSN Encarta
		Dunham received a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.
		Dunham, who was especially drawn to Haiti, became initiated into Haiti’s Vodou religion and later in life divided her time between the United States and Haiti.
		From 1965 to 1966 Dunham acted as technical cultural adviser to the president and the minister of cultural affairs of Senegal.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761577386 (578 words)

	St. Louis Public Library - Katherine Dunham Matriarch of Black Dance
		Dunham was able to combine her training as an anthropologist with her belief that dance was an integral part of a people's social structure.
		Katherine Dunham opened the Dunham School of Dance in New York to "train dancers in the knowledge and use of primitive rhythms." All the while she appeared in many films, performed, choreographed, and directed theater dance shows that toured all around the world.
		The Katherine Dunham Museum consists of a collection of furniture, paintings, musical instruments, costumes, decorations, photographs, sketches, a broad range of ethnic art objects, and a cross-section of personal belongings documenting the life of this extraordinary woman.
	www.slpl.org /slpl/interests/article240115884.asp (328 words)

	CriticalDance :: View topic - Obituary for Katherine Dunham
		The Dunham School closed in 1957 but was only one of the many operations Miss Dunham spearheaded during her long life that exemplifying her resourcefulness and penchant to use every once of her creativity and the creativity of those around her to accomplish numerous feats.
		Miss Dunham’s contribution to American pantheon of dance in the 1940’s and early 1950’s to the present is unquestionable with her choreographic works illustrating a viable synergy between performance practices found in the African Diaspora and Western dance theatre practice.
		Miss Dunham personal sacrifice for the plight of others was given in 1992 when she began a hunger strike to focus international attention on the plight of Haitian refugees seeking asylum in the United States who, under the orders of President George Bush, were being sent back to Haiti.
	www.ballet-dance.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=27202 (2752 words)

	Dunham, Katherine - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Through her dance technique, which stressed the isolation of individual parts of the body, as well as her choreography, teaching, and appearances in different media, Dunham brought African and Caribbean dance to the attention of the public and exerted tremendous influence on the evolution of modern dance.
		Dunham made her Broadway debut in the musical Cabin in the Sky (1940), choreographed and danced in several Hollywood musicals including Stormy Weather (1943), and also choreographed Aida (1963) at New York's Metropolitan Opera and The Magic of Katherine Dunham (1987) for the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater.
		Choreographer and dancer Katherine Dunham dies at 96.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-dunham-k.html (440 words)

	AfroCentric_News Features - Katherine Dunham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Katherine Dunham came into the world in June of 1909, born into the town of Glynn Ellyn, Illinois.
		Dunham’s father was a talented guitarist and bass singer and it was his side of the family that nurtured Dunham’s artistry.
		Dunham who was a world performer, author, and traveler met famed artists and world renowned political leaders such as Paul Robeson, Evita Peron and Moulay Hassan, the King of Morocco.
	www.afrocentricnews.com /afro/features_katherine_dunham.html (1199 words)

	Dance Pioneer Katherine Dunham Remembered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Katherine Dunham, a pioneer in the world of dance and a civil rights champion, died Sunday, May 21, at the age of 96.
		Dunham made her mark by blending African, Caribbean and American rhythms into a compelling and original choreography that had universal appeal.
		Katherine Dunham always liked to say she was "born dancing." She grew up in Joliet, Illinois, the child of a fl-American father and French-Canadian mother.
	www.voanews.com /english/AmericanLife/2006-05-24-voa54.cfm (902 words)

	Dancer. Katherine Dunham. Missouri Historical Society.
		Sketch of Katherine Dunham with a caged bird on her head, artist unknown, 1948.
		In 1939, Katherine Dunham moved to New York, where she became the director of the New York Labor Stage.
		Katherine Dunham in solo "Spanish Dance." Photograph by Dorien Basabe, Chicago, 1937.
	www.mohistory.org /content/KatherineDunham/dancer.htm (311 words)

	WIC Biography - Katherine Dunham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Katherine Dunham revolutionized American dance in the 1930's by going to the roots of fl dance and ritual and transforming them into significant artistic choreography that speaks to all.
		Dunham prepared herself by dancing and performing throughout her youth in Peoria, Illinois, by her graduate studies in social anthropology at the University of Chicago, and by living among the native in the West Indies.
		She formed the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, which toured in more than 60 countries, amassing cultural and theatrical experiences, which would be recounted in eight books, numerous articles and short stories which she wrote.
	www.wic.org /bio/kdunham.htm (404 words)

	One-Woman Revolution Katherine Dunham Dance Magazine - Find Articles
		Dunham, 91, is in Manhattan, where she is working on an autobiography, Minefield, while undergoing physical therapy for her surgically replaced knees.
		Dunham also focused on American dance forms: "I was running around getting all these exotic things from the Caribbean and Africa when the real development lay in Harlem and fl Americans," she says.
		Dunham was a glamorous performer, and it is rumored that Hurok had insured her legs for a million dollars.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_8_74/ai_63735720 (909 words)

	Timeline (The Katherine Dunham Collection, The Library of Congress Presents: Music, Theater and Dance)
		Katherine Mary Dunham is born on 22 June 1909 in a Chicago hospital.
		Katherine Dunham: An Anthology of Writings, edited by VèVè A. Clark and Margaret B. Wilkerson, is published in a limited, numbered edition of 130 copies by the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California at Berkeley.
		Dunham is named a Founder of Dance in America and is honored as such at the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, New York.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /cocoon/ihas/html/dunham/dunham-timeline.html (6748 words)

	Spotlight on.....Katherine Dunham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dunham's life changed drastically though, in 1914, when her mother became seriously ill and died, leaving Albert to raise Katherine and her older brother, Albert Jr, alone.
		While at school, Dunham attended a lecture on cultural anthropology where she was introduced to the concept of dance as a cultural symbol.
		Fascinated, Dunham began to study the anthropological roots of dance, and after receiving the prestigious Rosenwald Foundation Fellowship, took her first field trip to the Caribbean in 1935 to study native dance.
	www.black-collegian.com /african/dunham9.shtml (1319 words)

	Katherine Dunham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dunham was born in Joliet, Illinois of mixed racial heritage.
		Dunham also began the Katherine Dunham Company, a troupe of dancers, singers, actors and musicians, which was the first African American modern dance company.
		In 1945 she opened and directed the Katherine Dunham School of Dance and Theatre near Times Square in New York City when her Dance Company was provided with rent-free studio space for 3 years by an admirer, Lee Shubert; it had an initial enrollment of 350 students.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katherine_Dunham (4027 words)

	Katherine Dunham - A Dance Pioneer
		Dunham, who was born in Chicago, Illinois 92 years ago, discovered dance in high school.
		Dunham began to study anthropology at the college level because of the "strong connection between the dance, music and archaic ceremonials of a people and these people's social and economic history."(Emery) Throughout college, Dunham gave dance lessons to help pay her tuition.
		After the completion of her degree in anthropology, Dunham was given a Rosenwald Travel Fellowship to study the people of the West Indies.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/dance_stage_beyond/68795 (489 words)

	Famous African Americans - Katherine Dunham
		Katherine began one of the most successful dance careers in the American and European theater in 1934, which led to leading roles in musicals, operas and cabarets throughout the world.
		In 1979, Katherine Dunham was presented with the prestigious Albert Schweitzer Music Award at Carneigie Hall in New York.
		In December of 1983, Dunham received the highest award for preforming artist _- The Kenedy Center Honor Award, and in 196 she received the Scipps American Dance Festival Award.
	www.bigmamasrecipes.com /soulfood/dunham.html (290 words)

	Dance Technique. Katherine Dunham. Missouri Historical Society.
		Katherine Dunham was the first to combine the individualistic dance movements of Caribbean and African cultures with European-style ballet.
		Dunham founded more than 60 schools to teach the Dunham Technique, and she spread the roots of American dance throughout the world.
		Although with the Dunham Technique she beautifully incorporated Caribbean, African, and American cultural movements into one style on stage, she recognized that decades later we continue to separate the cultures when the music stops.
	www.mohistory.org /content/KatherineDunham/dance_technique.htm (521 words)

	Great Performances: Free To Dance - Biographies - Katherine Dunham
		What Dunham gave modern dance was a coherent lexicon of African and Caribbean styles of movement -- a flexible torso and spine, articulated pelvis and isolation of the limbs, a polyrhythmic strategy of moving -- which she integrated with techniques of ballet and modern dance.
		In Europe Dunham was praised as a dancer and choreographer, recognized as a serious anthropologist and scholar, and admired as a glamorous beauty.
		Toward the end of the 1950s Dunham was forced to regroup, disband, and reform her company, according to the exigencies of her financial and physical health (she suffered from crippling knee problems).
	www.pbs.org /wnet/freetodance/biographies/dunham.html (1317 words)

	Dancer History Archives by StreetSwing.com - Katherine Dunham - Main Page
		Later owned her own dance studio in 1931 (the Katherine Dunham School of Dance) in New York and had a group called the Katherine Dunham dancers who were one of the first all fl female dance groups.
		Dunham was also an Anthropologist and used the pen name of K. Dunn for magazines such as Esquire.
		Kay Dunham is the nephew of the legendary Katherine Dunham.
	www.streetswing.com /histmai2/d2dunhm1.htm (192 words)

	Katherine Dunham, dancer, anthropologist and author, dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dunham died Sunday at the Manhattan assisted living facility where she lived, said Charlotte Ottley, executive liaison for the organization that preserves her artistic estate.
		For her endeavors, Dunham received 10 honorary doctorates, the Presidential Medal of the Arts, the Albert Schweitzer Prize at the Kennedy Center Honors, and membership in the French Legion of Honor, as well as major honors from Brazil and Haiti.
		Dunham was married to theater designer John Thomas Pratt for 49 years before his death in 1986.
	www.startribune.com /466/story/447172.html (675 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner : Pieces of the Past: Katherine Dunham - Matriarch of Modern Dance
		Katherine Dunham was born on June 22, 1909 in Illinois to middle-class parents.
		Katherine's father was forced to take a job as a traveling salesman and Katherine and her brother Albert Jr.
		In 1936 Dunham returned to Chicago, inspired by her time in Jamaica, with a wide range of ideas for new choreography and a new technique which combined principles of ballet and modern dance with an Afro-Caribbean polyrhythmic way of moving, flexible torso and spine, isolation of the limbs and articulated pelvis.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /pages/history/story0043.htm (2126 words)

	African American Registry: Katherine Dunham, choreographer born. . .
		Katherine Dunham* was born on this date in 1910.
		Born in Chicago, Dunham received her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in anthropology from the University of Chicago and later did extensive anthropological study, particularly in the Caribbean.
		Dunham opened the Dunham School of Dance in New York City, which trained dancers in classical ballet, African and Caribbean dance forms, anthropology, and other cultural arts.
	www.aaregistry.com /detail.php3?id=244 (416 words)

	Joyce Aschenbrenner / Katherine Dunham
		More than a recounting of Dunham's accomplishments as a dancer and choreographer, this biography is the first to thoroughly examine her pioneering contributions to dance anthropology and her commitment to humanizing society through the arts.
		Integrating these sources, Aschenbrenner characterizes the social, familial, and cultural environment of Dunham's upbringing and the intellectual and artistic community she embraced at the University of Chicago that laid the groundwork for her development as a dancer, anthropologist, and humanitarian.
		Joyce Aschenbrenner, professor emerita of anthropology at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, is the author of Katherine Dunham: Reflections on the Social and Political Contexts of Afro-American Dance and Lifelines: Black Families in Chicago.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f02/aschenbrenner.html (362 words)

	BIO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Miss Katherine Dunham was born in Joliet, Illinois in 1909.
		In 1931, Miss Dunham established her first dance school in Chicago.
		Miss Dunham’s intellectual, artistic, and humanitarian contributions have earned her many coveted awards over the years, including the Presidential Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors, French Legion of Honor, Southern Cross of Brazil, Grand Cross of Haiti, NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award, Lincoln Academy Laureate, and the Urban Leagues’ Lifetime Achievement Award.
	www.eslarp.uiuc.edu /kdunham/bio.htm (422 words)

	Dunham, Katherine: Island Possessed
		Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual.
		In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people and cults of Haiti worked their spell, catapulting her into experiences that she was often lucky to survive.
		Here Dunham tells how the island came to be possessed by the demons of voodoo and other cults imported from various parts of Africa, as well as by the deep class divisions, particularly between fls and mulattos, and the political hatred still very much in evidence today.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/12595.ctl (176 words)

	Katherine Dunham Speaks Out on Dunham Technique, Today's World Leaders, Violence and Hope \| Tribes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		She has appeared in more than 57 countries around globe, received recognition from Unesco, as well as heads of state, and is the recipient of hundreds ofawards and honorary doctorates including the U.S. Presidential Award, Kennedy Center Honors, the Albert Schweitzer Award and the Essence Magazine Awards.
		In this interview with Melony McGant, Miss Dunham shares her heart, and hopes for a world of peace, as she passes us the baton.
		So when you are deeply into Dunham Technique and are performing the choreography or are teaching, or learning, then all of those parts of your body begin to sing.
	www.tribes.org /cgi-bin/form.pl?karticle=467 (1371 words)

	Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities
		The Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities are a non-profit, multi-disciplinary arts organization founded by, and currently operated under the artistic direction and leadership of dance legend Katherine Dunham.
		The organization, formerly known as the Dunham Fund for Research and Development of Cultural Arts, exists to promote and preserve Miss Dunham's legacy as embodied in her anthropological writings, films, and works of visual art.
		The Dunham Centers include a network of outstanding international visual and performing artists, educators, and researchers, who make available their knowledge and skills to the youth of East St. Louis.
	www.eslarp.uiuc.edu /kdunham (283 words)

	village voice > dance > by Thomas F. DeFrantz
		June 13th, 2006 12:36 PM Katherine Dunham, who died last month in New York at the age of 96, changed the way we understand the African diaspora through its physical arts.
		Her fearlessness in the way she did fieldwork was very new in the areas where she was going; she wasn't fluent in the language nor experienced in the cultures in which she found herself.
		Dunham's philosophy meant that teaching Caribbean dances to African American dancers was a way to view diasporic history in the body.
	www.villagevoice.com /dance/0624,defrantz,73527,14.html (1087 words)

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