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
Additional Dunham resources
- A Life in Dance: Dunham Created New Forms in Choreography Library of Congress Information Bulletin October 2002 – Vol. 61, No. 10
- Bringing History and Dance Together: The World of Katherine Dunham Teaching with the Library of Congress blog March 27, 2014
Politics and the Dancing Body online exhibition items
Additional resources
- Women’s History Month: Katherine Dunham In the Muse blog March 8, 2010
- Katherine Dunham biography from PBS
- Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts & Humanities
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