Katherine Dunham’s The Negro Dance (1941) focuses on dances in the West Indies and on their similarities with North American dance forms rooted in African culture. Though backed up by the New Negro arguments of the time, it shows Dunham’s prominent elaboration of a dignified African-American art based on syncretic bodily practices, which anticipated theorizations in dance and cultural studies. By uniting a theoretical approach and performance ability, she also made methodological choices which, decades later, became standard practices in the field of dance anthropology. Moreover, she is now considered an ante litteram exponent of public or applied anthropology due to the fact that, by using various strategies, she managed to take anthropolo...
Katherine Dunham was an internationally recognized dancer, but her time in Mexico often gets short m...
textThis report examines diasporic dialogues in Black concert dance focusing on dialogues between Br...
There are no video records and little documentation of the performance; however, choreographer Kathe...
Katherine Dunham’s The Negro Dance (1941) focuses on dances in the West Indies and on their similari...
Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was one of the great dancer/choreographers of the 20th century. As a t...
I argue that through using an anthropological perspective, Dunham introduced classical ballet to Afr...
This study focuses on the African American dance pedagogy designed by Katherine Dunham and how this ...
The interdisciplinary field of Dance Studies as a separate arena focusing on the social, political, ...
Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was one of the most critically and commercially successful dancers of t...
By uniting theoretical approach and performance ability, Katherine Dunham made methodological choise...
This dissertation analyzes the intellectual and political contributions of choreographer Katherine D...
This paper foregrounds imagination to consider how African Diasporic conditions converge with choreo...
David DeBlieck, Visiting Assistant Professor, Theater Katherine Dunham was an internationally-recog...
In 1950 Claude Lévi-Strauss wrote the preface to the French edition of Katherine Dunham’s book Vodu....
This thesis summarizes the history of colonization of the United States of America, that was the mai...
Katherine Dunham was an internationally recognized dancer, but her time in Mexico often gets short m...
textThis report examines diasporic dialogues in Black concert dance focusing on dialogues between Br...
There are no video records and little documentation of the performance; however, choreographer Kathe...
Katherine Dunham’s The Negro Dance (1941) focuses on dances in the West Indies and on their similari...
Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was one of the great dancer/choreographers of the 20th century. As a t...
I argue that through using an anthropological perspective, Dunham introduced classical ballet to Afr...
This study focuses on the African American dance pedagogy designed by Katherine Dunham and how this ...
The interdisciplinary field of Dance Studies as a separate arena focusing on the social, political, ...
Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was one of the most critically and commercially successful dancers of t...
By uniting theoretical approach and performance ability, Katherine Dunham made methodological choise...
This dissertation analyzes the intellectual and political contributions of choreographer Katherine D...
This paper foregrounds imagination to consider how African Diasporic conditions converge with choreo...
David DeBlieck, Visiting Assistant Professor, Theater Katherine Dunham was an internationally-recog...
In 1950 Claude Lévi-Strauss wrote the preface to the French edition of Katherine Dunham’s book Vodu....
This thesis summarizes the history of colonization of the United States of America, that was the mai...
Katherine Dunham was an internationally recognized dancer, but her time in Mexico often gets short m...
textThis report examines diasporic dialogues in Black concert dance focusing on dialogues between Br...
There are no video records and little documentation of the performance; however, choreographer Kathe...