Selections from the Katherine Dunham Collection, Available Online

Photo, Print, Drawing

[Katherine Dunham, three-quarter length portrait, in costume for play] 1 photographic print.

Contributor: Valente, Alfredo
Date: 1945

Photo, Print, Drawing

[Katherine Dunham, full-length portrait, standing, facing front with her daughter Marie Christine boarding airplane in New York] 1 photographic print.

Date: 1962

Photo, Print, Drawing

[Katherine Dunham, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in costume for dance revue "Bamboche"] 1 photographic print.

Date: 1962

Photo, Print, Drawing

[Katherine Dunham, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] 1 photographic print.

Contributor: Twachtman, Phyllis
Date: 1956

Photo, Print, Drawing

[Katherine Dunham, dancer, three-quarter length portrait, facing left, wearing dance costume] 1 photographic print.

Date: 1956

Photo, Print, Drawing

Katherine Dunham in "Tropical Revue" Martin Beck Theatre 1 photographic print. | Photograph shows Katherine Dunham, dancer, full-length portrait, facing right, wearing dance costume.

Contributor: Valente, Alfredo
Date: 1943

Photo, Print, Drawing

Tropical ballet tries classic New York, N.Y. --a group of the Katherine Dunham dancers are shown in mid-air during a rehearsal of the classical ballet, "Mozart's Sonata in D Major," which they … 1 photographic print.

Date: 1946

Film, Video

Shango This clip was filmed on 16mm at the Studebaker Theater, Chicago by Ann Barzel in 1947.The film is a compilation of excepts from Tropical Revue and includes sections of Tropics; Son; Nañig; Choros #1; Haitian Roadside; Street Scene; Shango; L’Ag’Ya (Market Scene, Pas de Deux, Mazouk, Beguine, Charm Dance, Ag’ya fight, and the beginning of the death scene). The ag’ya fight is performed by…

Film, Video

Charm Dance from "L'Ag'Ya" This clip was filmed on 16mm at the Studebaker Theater, Chicago by Ann Barzel in 1947.The film is a compilation of excepts from Tropical Revue and includes sections of Tropics; Son; Nañig; Choros #1; Haitian Roadside; Street Scene; Shango; L’Ag’Ya (Market Scene, Pas de Deux, Mazouk, Beguine, Charm Dance, Ag’ya fight, and the beginning of the death scene. The ag’ya fight is performed by…

Film, Video

Ag'Ya Fight from "L'Ag'Ya" This clip was filmed on 16mm at the Studebaker Theater, Chicago by Ann Barzel in 1947.The film is a compilation of excepts from Tropical Revue and includes sections of Tropics; Son; Nañig; Choros #1; Haitian Roadside; Street Scene; Shango; L’Ag’Ya (Market Scene, Pas de Deux, Mazouk, Beguine, Charm Dance, Ag’ya fight, and the beginning of the death scene. The ag’ya fight is performed by…

Film, Video

Choros This clip is from a 1960 television production titled Karibische Rhythmen. Regie: Gunther Hassert, filmed in Vienna by WDR Fernsehen, Cologne, Germany. (Source Note).

Film, Video

Cumbia This clip is from a 1960 television production titled Karibische Rhythmen. Regie: Gunther Hassert, filmed in Vienna by WDR Fernsehen, Cologne, Germany. (Source Note).