Collections Spotlight: Katherine Dunham Selections
This collection contains moving and still images, highlighting the dancer’s early explorations as an anthropologist observing movement types and dance forms in Haiti, Trinidad, Martinique, and Jamaica as well as Dunham performing and teaching.
Collection resources
- Images
- Videos
- Notes on Dunham’s Work
- Katherine Dunham Timeline
- Katherine Dunham: A Life in Dance article
- Collecting a Career: The Katherine Dunham Legacy Project
Blog posts & articles
- Bringing History and Dance Together: The World of Katherine Dunham Teaching with the Library of Congress Blog
- Family Resources for Exploring the Work of Katherine Dunham: Experience, Research & Creation Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
- Katherine Dunham’s Caribbean Ethnographic Research Folklife Today
- Women’s History Month: Katherine Dunham In the Muse
- A Life in Dance: Dunham Created New Forms in Choreography Library of Congress Information Bulletin October 2002 – Vol. 61, No. 10
Politics and the Dancing Body online exhibition items
Additional resources