Collections Spotlight: Katherine Dunham Selections

Katherine Dunham in the ballet L'Ag'Ya

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

Blog posts & articles

Politics and the Dancing Body online exhibition items

Additional resources

Primary Source Spotlight: Dance