...The introduction explains the book’s main premise that Katherine Dunham was an important intellectual and activist in the long black freedom struggle of the twentieth century. It argues that she made two primary contributions to this movement. First, she made dance a part of the fight for racial...

... of American Ballet Wigman School of Modern Dance Hanya Holm Katherine Dunham Ballet Nègre Negro Dance Group New Negro Movement Chicago Black Renaissance University of Chicago Robert Redfield Melville Herskovits Ruth Page Ludmila Speranzeva How did a quiet child from a predominantly white Chicago...

... Project FTP Haiti DuBois William Karamu House Theatre McCoo Jordis Troubled Island Hughes “Voodoo” Macbeth Wells Welles Orson White Clarence Cameron Katherine Dunham Melville Herskovits Haiti Jamaica Martinique Trinidad Christophe Vodou Zora Neale Hurston Haitian Revolution In the winter...

... Davis Benjamin C Dunham School Dunham Technique Gromov Anatoly International Workers Order internationalism Joint Anti Fascist Refugee Committee Kolotzoff Michail Marvin Mark Southern Conference for Human Welfare Katherine Dunham Hollywood Broadway Stormy Weather Carnival of Rhythm...

... Croft Clare Graham Martha Von Eschen Penny House Un American Activities Committee HUAC Bamboche! Dunham Broadway Hughes Allen Moiseyev Folk Dance Company Shay Anthony Ballet Folklórico de Mexico Senegal Walker Jesse Katherine Dunham Cold War decolonization Southland Brazil Paris...

...Katherine Dunham is revered as one of the great pillars of American dance. Her world-renowned dance company exposed audiences to the diversity of dance from the 1930s-1960s and her New York school brought dance training to a variety of populations. As an anthropologist, her research brought works...

... Francis Terri Josephine Baker memoir antiracism silent cinema sound cinema Josephine Baker Katherine Dunham African American dance autobiography film primitivism stardom performance race In Josephine, Baker declared that, “You never know how a film will turn out. None...

... from Katherine Dunham, she gives a detailed synopsis of Dunham’s life, works, experiences with racial discrimination, and her combination of dance and scholarship inspiring Osumare’s own approach to combine these fields in her activism. In discussing the concept of Afrofuture, she reflects...

...This chapter situates Katherine Dunham within the context of several important figures of the Afro- and U.S.-American dance world while reflecting on the role of Haiti in research in ways that resonate with the work of such dance figures. By placing Dunham alongside such figures as Ralph Lemon...

... James Cabin in the Sky Brigadoon Oklahoma Rodgers and Hammerstein Lerner and Loewe Katherine Dunham Ethel Waters Lena Horne Agnes de Mille Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse Theatrical vs. cinematic This chapter will explore three historically and artistically significant stage musicals from...

...This book investigates African American dancers Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham’s self-inventions on screen and in writing to map the intellectual underpinnings and visual impact of their art. Baker was the first Black woman to enjoy a starring role in mainstream cinema and Dunham...

... Katherine Dunham Zora Neale Hurston Imperialism Solidarity To consider Zora Neale Hurston’s time in Haiti is to observe a crack in Hurston’s sanctified legacy. Haiti was incredibly generative for Hurston’s artistic development. She famously wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God in seven...

...This chapter traces the evolution of Katherine Dunham’s relationship with Haiti through archival research and a consideration of her 1969 ethnographic memoir, Island Possessed. Beginning with the influence of the American occupation of Haiti on the Harlem Renaissance, it argues...

... perspectives on the era’s mixed-race performance. They include early productions of Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock (1937-38) which employed a mixed-race chorus and a black choreographer (Clarence Yates); the so-called “collaboration” of the black choreographer Katherine Dunham and her...

... Thompson Robert Farris Van Scott Glory Verdon Gwen Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers Katherine Dunham School The Luigi né Eugene Louis Facculto Bal Negre Dunham Damn Yankees Fosse Adler Ross Abbott Douglass Destine John Leon Fort Syvilla Lee Baayork Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 film Smith Jojo...

... the African American actress and singer Etta Moten and the African American dancer Katherine Dunham. All three artistes performed as the baiana—an Afro-Brazilian market woman from Salvador de Bahia or Rio de Janeiro—as part of their Good Neighbor acts. They played to type while still...

...Elsie Houston. Adjoa Osei, Oxford University Press. © Adjoa Osei 2025. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197693179.003.0006 Elsie Houston was inspired by the Harlem Renaissance. Alongside her, other performers, such as the African American dancer Katherine Dunham and the Trinidadian dancer...

... research in Spanish, French/Kreyol, English/Creole, Dutch, former Danish and Portuguese Circum-Caribbean dances, as well as the contributions of Katherine Dunham in the field of Diaspora dance. Diaspora dance transcendence resilience Carnival dance citizenship ignition via dance contredanse parading...

..., to her further exploration of religion as a Yoruba priestess and visitation of spiritual shrines in Nigeria. She also details her encounters with critiques on both hip-hop and dance scholarship, as well as her continued experiences representing the Katherine Dunham legacy. She also covers her experiences...

... artists including Merriel Abbott, Catherine Van Buren, Katherine Dunham, John Greene, and Etta Moten, as well as her teaching of the young Ned Rorem, her creation of extended incidental music (fourteen numbers) for a production of the Federal Theatre Project, and her founding of a much-watched...