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- Decides to major in anthropology and to focus on dances of the African diaspora
- She attends classes taught by Redfield, A. R. Radcliffe-Browne, Edward Sapir, Lloyd Warner, and others.
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- forms a dance company
- one of the first Negro ballet companies in America.
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Also the Negro Dance Group in Chicago
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- Ruth Page's ballet
- her company appears at the Chicago World's Fair.
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- receives a grant - Travels to Caribbean with letters of introduction written by Herskovits to Haitian anthropologist Dr. Jean Price-Mars and others - travels to the mountain village of Accompong
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- one-time appearance at the Young Men's Hebrew Association
- joined by Edna Guy, Alison Burroughs, Clarence Yates, and Asadata Dafora for A Negro Dance Evening.
- Dunham presents a suite of West Indian dances and "Modern Trends," Tropic Death, Talley Beatty as the fugitive from a lynch mob.
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- As part of the suite called Primitive Rhythms, Dunham premieres Rara Tonga at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. It will subsequently be performed as an independent work.
- Dunham and her dancers premiere Tropics at the Abraham Lincoln Center in Chicago. The suite of dances includes Woman with a Cigar.
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Performed at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.
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Dunham choreographson e of her first solos, and dances it at the Abraham Lincoln Center in Chicago.
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Premiere Venue: Goodman Theatre. Premiere City: Chigaco.
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Premiere Venue: Goodman Theatre. Premiere City: Chigaco.
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Dunham choreographs and produces her first full-length ballet, January at the Federal Theater, Chicago.
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- Dunham choreographs and performs in Barrelhouse, a duet
- Dunham choreographs Son (Sound) and, in October 1938, introduces it into the suite Primitive Rhythms.
- Dunham choreographs and performs in Barrelhouse, a duet
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Dunham begins her film career with Carnival of Rhythm, a short film written by Stanley Martin, directed by Jean Negulesco, and produced by Warner Brothers is devoted entirely to her, her company, and her choreography.
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Katherine Dunham and Dance Company perform Tropics and Le Jazz "Hot" in the College Inn Panther Room at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago.
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Dunham choreographs Bahiana, which premieres at a concert at the University of Cincinnati. Set to music by Don Alfonso, it concerns a woman of Bahia, Brazil, who dances and sings as she becomes entwined in the ropes of a group of dockside rope weavers at work. This number would become one of Dunham's most celebrated characterizations and would remain in her repertory throughout the 1940s.
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Published under the pseudonym Kaye Dunn and the heading "Sketchbook of a Young Dancer in La Martinique," two articles by Dunham appear in Esquire: "La Boule Blanche" (September 1939) and "L'Ag'ya of Martinique" (November 1939).
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Dunham begins work on Broadway. She is invited to contribute new material to the popular musical revue Pins and Needles, produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union Players. For the second edition, entitled Pins and Needles 1940, she creates a dance to music by Harold Rome for "Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl, or It's Better with a Union Man." Archie Savage is among the dancers.
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Dunham books her own company into the theater for a Sunday performance, which is so popular that the company repeats the Sunday performances for another ten weeks. These concerts, billed as Tropics and Le Jazz "Hot," consist of dances based on Latin American and Caribbean sources (Island Song, Tropic-Shore Excursion, and Woman with a Cigar) and dances based on African-American sources (Br'er Rabbit an' de Tah Baby, Flaming Youth, 1927, and Floyd's Guitar Blues ).
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The Dunham Company opens the nightclub at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago with a repertory that includes the Polynesian-influenced Rara Tonga, Barrelhouse , Bre'r Rabbit an' de Tah Baby, Cakewalk, and Woman with a Cigar. George Balanchine and Vernon Duke see a performance and invite Dunham and her company to come to New York to perform in a new Broadway show.
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Dunham collaborates with Balanchine on choreography for dances in the musical play Cabin in the Sky. The show opens at the Martin Beck Theater in October 1940 and runs until March 1941, playing 156 performances.
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Premiere Venue: Curran Theatre.
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Dunham premieres Rites de Passage at the Curran Theater in San Francisco.
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Dunham and her company of dancers and musicians embark on their first United States tour in the Broadway production of Cabin in the Sky. Dunham and her company of dancers and musicians embark on their first United States tour in the Broadway production of Cabin in the Sky.
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Premiere Venue: Curran Theatre. Premiere City: San Francisco.
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Contracted to be a featured dancer in the patriotic film Star Spangled Rhythm, Dunham choreographs and appears in a solo number, "Sharp as a Tack," with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
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Dunham stages dances for the film Pardon My Sarong, a comedy starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Neither she nor members of her company appear in the film.
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The original two-week engagement is extended by popular demand into a three-month run. After eighty-seven performances on Broadway, the company takes the show on a national tour.
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Dunham and her company appear in the film Stormy Weather, a show-business story starring Bill Robinson and Lena Horne.
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Katherine Dunham and her company in Tropical Revue, which opens at New York's Martin Beck Theater. The show is billed as "a musical heatwave … voodoo! Boogie! Shimmy! jazz and jive! primitive rites!" The show opens with lively Latin American and Caribbean dances and, in the second part, a dramatic ballet, such as Rites de Passage or L'Ag'Ya , is featured. The finale usually consists of plantation dances, dances set to Negro spirituals, and American social dances.
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In January, Dunham premieres Choros (nos. 1-5) at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto. Set to music by Vidaco Gogliano, Choros is a stylized version of a nineteenth-century Brazilian quadrille. Two of the sections (nos. 1 and 4) would later be joined and performed as an independent work.
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In February, Flaming Youth, 1927 premieres in New Britain, Connecticut.
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Premiere Venue: Royal Alexandra Theatre.
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Also Known As Juventude Apasionada. Premiere City: New Britain, Connecticut
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Dunham and her company appear in such clubs as Chez Paree in Chicago, El Rancho Hotel and the Trocadero in Las Vegas, and Ciro's in Hollywood.
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Dunham choreographs, directs, and stars in the musical play Carib Song, which opens in September at the Adelphi Theater in New York. The finale to the first act is Shango , a staged interpretation of a Vodun ritual that would become a permanent part of her company's repertory.
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Dunham's article "Goombay," a memoir of her visit to the Maroon people of Jamaica, appears in the November issue of Mademoiselle.
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Its components are the Dunham School of Dance and Theater, the Department of Cultural Studies, and the Institute for Caribbean Research. Teachers in the Dance Division include Todd Bolender (ballet), Marie Bryant (tap and boogie), and José Limón (modern dance). Dunham Technique is taught by Tommy Gomez, Archie Savage, Lavinia Williams, and Syvilla Fort, who also teaches ballet.
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Dunham premieres Nañigo and La Camparsa, as numbers in the suite Motivos, at the Temple Theater in Portland, Oregon. A choreographic interplay among a group of male practitioners of an Afro-Cuban religious cult. A soloist represents ancient Yoruba dance tradition, while the other dancers perform modern variations. La Camparsa, centers on a lone woman, wandering the streets in the early-morning hours after Carnival, who encounters three men, one of whom she believes may be her husband.
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Dunham's first book is published: Journey to Accompong (New York: Henry Holt, 1946; reprint, Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press, 1971). It recounts her experiences among the Maroon people of Jamaica in 1935-1936.
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In December, after a nine-month tour, Bal Nègre opens at New York's Belasco Theater. It receives glowing reviews.
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The Katherine Dunham Experimental Group presents Caribbean Backgrounds at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
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Dunham choreographs the musical play Windy City, which premieres at the Great Northern Theater in Chicago. The show concerns the character and vitality of the people of Chicago and is said to have influenced Jerome Robbins's choreography for West Side Story.
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Dunham's thesis written for the University of Chicago in 1937, is translated into Spanish by Javier Romero and published as Las danzas de Haití as a special issue of Acta antropológica 2.4 (Mexico, 1947). It will subsequently be published in French as Les danse d'Haïti, (Paris: Éditions Fasquelle, 1950), and in English as Dances of Haiti (Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 1983).
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Dunham choreographs Angelique, Blues Trio, and Veracuzana for engagements at Ciro's nightclub in Hollywood. Veracruzana will be included in later revues and will become one of Dunham's most popular numbers.
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Bal Nègre plays at the Geary Theater in San Francisco.
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Dunham and her company appear in the film Casbah, a romantic tale of jewel thieves in Algiers starring Yvonne de Carlo, Tony Martin, and Peter Lorre. Dunham (uncredited) appears as Odette; Eartha Kitt appears as herself. Dunham choreographs and stages two scenes: the Ramadan Festival and the Casbah Nightclub.
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Dunham appears with her company in London at the Prince of Wales Theatre in A Caribbean Rhapsody, a music and dance revue. Theater critic David Lewin notes that "A first-night audience was bewildered, enthralled, wildly enthusiastic about a new-type musical which exhilarates with its speed and animal primitiveness" and observed that Dunham "scored the greatest hit since Danny Kaye" (Daily Express, 6 May 1948).
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Dunham delivers an address, "The State of Cults among the Deprived," to the Royal Anthropological Society in London.
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Dunham and her company perform at the Alhambra Theater in Brussels.
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Dunham premieres Jazz in Five Movements at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra in Paris. One of the dances on the program, Tango, is later performed as an independent work.
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Dunham and her company appear in the Italian film Botta e risposta. Louis Armstrong, Fernandel, and Isa Miranda are also featured. Two numbers from the Dunham repertory, Batucada and a segment of Jazz in Five Movements, are included.
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Dunham choreographs Afrique and a new version of Adeus Terras while in Rome.
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Premiere Venue: Théàtre National. Premiere City: Paris.
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Sol Hurok presents Katherine Dunham and Her Company in a dance revue in three parts, a prologue, and ten scenes at the Broadway Theater in New York. The opening-night program includes Afrique, Choros , Adeus Terras, Batucada , Veracruzana, Flaming Youth, Barrelhouse , Jazz in Five Movements, and L'Ag'Ya . Afrique and Barrelhouse are subsequently dropped, and Rites des Passage and Shango are substituted. The show closes after thirty-eight performances.
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Dunham and her company tour South America, Europe, and North Africa (1951-1953).
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Against advice, Dunham premieres her ballet Southland at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile. Its story centers on the lynching of a black man falsely accused of raping a white girl in the American South, and Dunham's dramatic treatment of it is shocking. Under pressure from the U.S. embassy, which objects to the negative picture of American society it gives to foreign audiences, the ballet is removed from the program.
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Premiere City: Paris.
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Dunham is named a chevalier of the Haitian Légion d'Honneur et Merite.
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Dunham's short story "Afternoon into Night" appears in Bandwagon (June 1952). It is later reprinted in Best Short Stories by Negro Writers, edited by Langston Hughes (Boston: Little, Brown, 1967)
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Dunham and her company perform in Denmark to high critical acclaim. Aftenbladet (12 July) claimed that the performance was a gift to Copenhageners, "the richest and most varied theater evening offered us in a long time."
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Dunham choreographs and performs in Acaraje for Hommage à Dorival Caymmi in Arachon, France.
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Dunham and her company perform at the Windsor Palace in Barcelona
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Dunham and her company tour North Africa (1952-1953).
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Dunham choreographs Afrique du Nord, which she and her company perform at the Cave Supper Club in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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A photograph of Dunham appears on the front cover of Ballet magazine (March 1952).
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Dunham and her company tour the United States and Mexico.
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Premiere Venue: Cave Supper Club. Premiere City: Vancouver, British Columbia
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Premiere Venue: Cave Supper Club. Premiere City: Vancouver, British Columbia
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Dunham and her company tour Europe and South America (1954-1955).
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Dunham and her company appear in two European films. Mambo, an Italian film starring Silvana Mangano, includes rare footage of the company in classroom demonstrations of Dunham Technique.
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Die Grosse Starparade, a German film also known as Liebessender, includes three numbers from the Dunham repertory: Choros (nos.1 and 4), Shango , and Tropics.
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Dunham and her company tour Mexico.
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Along with Carmen Amaya and her flamenco dancers, Dunham and her company appear in the Mexican film Música en la noche. The Dunham Company dances Dora and Cakewalk. The film is released in the United States in 1958.
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Dunham and her company perform in the Greek Theater, Los Angeles.
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Sol Hurok presents Katherine Dunham and Her Company in a dance revue in three acts and twelve scenes (i.e., Caribbean Rhapsody) at the Broadway Theater, New York. Dance critic Walter Terry writes, "Miss Dunham presents one of the handsomest productions you are likely to see in these parts" (New York Herald Tribune, 23 November 1955). Terry singles out three numbers for special praise: Veracruzana, Rituals (i.e., Rites of Passage), and Barrelhouse. The show closes after thirty-two performances.
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Premiere Venue: Ciro's. Premiere City: Hollywood.
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Premiere Venue: Ciro's. Premiere City: Hollywood.
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Dunham and her company tour Australia and New Zealand (1956-1957).
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Dunham and her company tour East Asia.
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Dunham provides choreography for the film Green Mansions, starring Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins. Neither she nor her company appears in the film, which was released in 1959.
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Dunham and her company embark on their third major European tour, which takes them to Denmark, Germany, France, Greece, and other countries.
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Dunham's third book is published: A Touch of Innocence: Memoirs of Childhood (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1959; reprint, University of Chicago Press, 1994). In a note to the reader she says that "this book is not an autobiography. It is the story of a world that has vanished. . . . And it is the story of a family that I knew very well, and especially of a girl and a young woman whom I rediscovered while writing about the members of this family."
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The Dunham Company's third European tour ends in Vienna. Because of bad management by their impresario, the company is stranded without money. To raise funds, Dunham quickly negotiates contracts for television shows and a club date.
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Katherine Dunham, a few former Dunham dancers, and the Royal Troupe of Morocco appear in a new revue, Bamboche!, at New York's 54th Street Theater. (The title is a Haitian term for "a get-together to have a good time.") After eight performances, the show closes. It is Dunham's last appearance on Broadway.
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Dunham choreographs Anabacoa for an engagement at Club Antilles in the Hotel Chalfonte–Haddon Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Premiere Venue: Haddon Hall
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Dunham choreographs a new production of Aida for the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
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Dunham's short story "The Crime of Pablo Martínez" appears in Ellery Queen's Magazine.
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Dunham provides choreography for the film The Bible, directed by John Huston and produced by Dino de Laurentiis. Dance sequences in two scenes, the Festival and the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, are conceived, choreographed, and staged by her. Neither she nor any of her dancers appears in the film.
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Dunham becomes artist-in-residence at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
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In February, Dunham stages Charles Gounod's opera Faust at Southern Illinois University, changing the scene to World War II Germany. Her dramatic interpretive dances include students playing basketball with a skull, bodies hanging from wires, and the devil (Mephistopheles) roaring across the stage on a motorcycle. After two performances on the Carbondale campus, the production is repeated at Monticello College in Alton, Illinois.
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Katherine Dunham reassembles some of her dancers for a New York performance on the occasion of American Ballet Theater's twenty-fifth anniversary gala.
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Dunham directs Albert Husson's musical comedy Deux Anges Sont Venus, starring Charles Aznavour, at the Théâtre de Paris.
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Dunham directs Ciao, Rudi in Rome.
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Trains the National Ballet of Senegal. Appointed adviser for the first World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, also known as the World Festival of Negro Arts (Festival des Arts Nègre), held in Dakar in April. For the first time, the U.S. State Department gives Dunham official status in naming her U.S. representative to the festival in Dakar. In Senegal, Dunham meets Mor Thiam, a master drummer, whom she invites to teach in East Saint Louis.
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The Equal Opportunity Commission, as part of the Southern Illinois University's Experiment in Higher Education, funds Dunham's proposal for creating a Performing Arts Training Center (PATC) in East Saint Louis, which eventually results in an educational center, children's auxiliary company, and a semiprofessional dance group that would tour the midwestern, southern, and eastern United States.
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Dunham is named a grand officier of the Haitian Légion d'Honneur et Merite and receives the Professional Achievement Award from the University of Chicago Alumni Association. She is also appointed honoree on the President's Council on Youth Opportunity in Washington, D.C.
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Dunham directs A Dream Deferred and Ode to Taylor Jones in East Saint Louis with the Youth Dance Group from her Performing Arts Training Center.
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Dunham receives a Dance Magazine Award. Other honorees at the award ceremony are Erik Bruhn, a Danish ballet dancer recognized as a premier danseur noble, and Lucia Chase, one of the founders of American Ballet Theater.
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Dunham's fourth book is published: Island Possessed (New York: Doubleday, 1969; reprint, University of Chicago Press, 1994). It is a series of vivid and detailed descriptions of the people and culture of Haiti.
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Dunham receives the Dance Division Heritage Award from the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation.
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Dunham directs the world premiere of Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha at Morehouse College, Atlanta. The following summer the opera is staged at Wolftrap Farm Park for the Performing Arts, Vienna, Virginia, using an orchestration by William Bolcom, and is later given at Kiel Opera House in Saint Louis, where Kenneth B. Billups conducts.
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Dunham receives an honorary doctorate of humane letters from MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois.
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Recieves National Center of Afro-American Artists Award from the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Dunham's fifth book is published: Kasamance: A Fantasy (New York: Odarkai Books, 1974). An allegorical African tale for young people set in Senegal, it is illustrated by Bennie Arrington after original drawings by John Pratt.
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Dunham is named to the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame
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Dunham is named to the Entertainment Hall of Fame Foundation
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Dunham lectures at the International Institute of Ethnomusicology and Folklore in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Dunham is given the International Women's Year Award, United Nations Association, Saint Louis Chapter.
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Dunham is visiting professor of Afro-American studies for the spring quarter at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Dunham receives an honorary doctorate of literature from Atlanta University.
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Dunham receives the Dance Pioneer Award given by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
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Kaiso! 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.
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In January, Dunham is presented the Albert Schweitzer Music Award "for her contributions to the performing arts and her dedication to humanitarian work." The award is given to her at "A Katherine Dunham Gala" at New York's Carnegie Hall. Organized by Glory Van Scott, the gala features performances by former Dunham Company members in their original roles as well as instructors and students from her Performing Arts Training Center in East Saint Louis..
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Dunham receives three honorary doctorates of fine arts: from Westfield State College in Massachusetts, from Brown University, and from Dartmouth College.
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The international opening of the Katherine Dunham Museum in East Saint Louis is attended by former members of the Dunham Company and representatives from Senegal, Haiti, and other foreign countries.
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Katherine Dunham's work Rites de Passage is taped for Dance in America in a program titled "Divine Drumbeats: Katherine Dunham and Her People," WNET-TV, New York.
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Dunham receives a CBS grant for her Children's Workshop in East Saint Louis.
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Dunham receives the National Dance Week Award from the Dance Concert Society.
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Dunham receives an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri
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Dunham retires from Southern Illinois University.
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Dunham receives an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and is awarded the grande croix of the Légion d'Honneur et Merite by the Haitian embassy.
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In December, Dunham is one of five recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C. Dunham and her fellow honorees – singer Frank Sinatra, actor James Stewart, stage and movie director Elia Kazan, and composer and critic Virgil Thomson – watch from the Presidential Box, where they are seated with President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan.
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Katherine Dunham receives an honorary doctorate of laws from Lincoln University.
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Katherine Dunham receives an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Howard University.
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The Dunham Technique Seminar is inaugurated. These annual seminars serve to codify and formalize Dunham Technique and are usually taught by Dunham and members of her company.
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The Medal of Artistic Merit in Dance, given by the International Council on Dance, UNESCO; and the Oral Self-Portrait from the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
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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. External Link
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The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater produces "The Magic of Katherine Dunham," which opens the Ailey company's 1987-1988 season. Among the works reconstructed under the supervision of Dunham are Choros, L'Ag'Ya, Shango, Flaming Youth, 1927, and Cakewalk.
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Dunham receives the Candice "Trailblazer" Award from the National Coalition of One Hundred Black Women.
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Dunham is awarded honorary doctorates of fine arts from Tufts University and Buffalo State College.
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The governments of both Haiti and France designate Dunham as an officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in their respective countries. She is also named as recipient of the President's Award of the National Council for Culture and Art, New York.
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In November, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., President George Bush makes the fifth annual presentation of the National Medal of the Arts to nine people in various fields of arts and letters. Dunham is honored "for her pioneering explorations of Caribbean and African dance, which have enriched and transformed the art of dance in America."
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Katherine Dunham receives an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Spelman College in Atlanta
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Katherine Dunham receives the prestigious Caribbean Award from the government of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Dunham receives an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Chicago State University.
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Katherine Dunham becomes artist-in-residence and lecturer at the University of Hawaii.
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Dunham receives an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
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Smith Award is presented to Dunham by representatives of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Katherine Dunham is named one of "America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures" by the Dance Heritage Coalition. The Library of Congress receives $1 million from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to undertake the Katherine Dunham Legacy Project.
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In honor of Dunham's ninety-third birthday, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, in western Massachusetts, organizes a special tribute with American and African dancers and musicians.
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Dunham receives an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Harvard University.
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Kaiso!: An Anthology of Writings by and about Katherine Dunham, edited by VèVè A. Clark and Sara E. Johnson, is published by the University of Wisconsin Press. A greatly expanded and updated edition of the 1978 publication, this new work is a volume of Studies in Dance History, a monograph series sponsored by the Society of Dance History Scholars and funded by the Katherine Dunham Legacy Project at the Library of Congress.
