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ArticleNotes on Dunham's Work Top of page Skip to main content Library of Congress Search Everything Audio Recordings Books/Printed Material Films, Videos Legislation Manuscripts/Mixed Material Maps Notated Music Newspapers Periodicals Personal Narratives Photos, Prints, Drawings Software, E-Resources Web Archives- Date: 1938
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ArticleBarrelhouse Katherine Dunham in a c.1950s photograph of "Barrelhouse." Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Choreographed by Katherine Dunham in 1938, Barrelhouse (also known as Barrelhouse Blues and Florida Swamp Shimmy) is one of the first of what she would come to call her Americana works. Based on the Shimmy from the Florida Gulf Coast, Dunham once explained that... -
ArticleMambo Silvana Mangano and Katherine Dunham in the 1955 Paramount Pictures production of "Mambo." Courtesy of Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis. In 1954 Katherine Dunham and her company were in the cast of Mambo, an Italian-American film produced by Carlo Ponti and Dino de Laurentiis for Teatri della Farnesina, Rome, and Paramount Pictures, Hollywood. Directed by Robert Rossen, it has original music by Dave Gilbert,... -
ArticleBal Nègre Katherine Dunham in "Bal Negre", 1946. Photographer, Vandamm Studio. Courtesy of Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Katherine Dunham devised Bal Nègre as a revue to showcase her company of dancers, singers, and musicians. During a nine-month tour of the United States, the running order of numbers on the program changed frequently,... -
ArticleCabin in the Sky Katherine Dunham in the 1940 Broadway hit production of "Cabin in the Sky". Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Billed as "A Musical Play (Fantasy) in Two Acts, Nine Scenes," Cabin in the Sky opened on 25 October 1940 at New York's Martin Beck Theater. The playbill on opening night included the following credits: "Book by Lynn Root.... -
ArticleL'Ag'Ya Katherine Dunham in the ballet "L'Ag'Ya", which premiered in 1938. Courtesy of the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis. Katherine Dunham's first full-length ballet debuted at the Federal Theater in Chicago on 27 January 1938. It was inspired by an event during her Caribbean field trip in 1935-1936 when she witnessed and filmed the ag'ya, the fighting dance of Martinique. Dunham herself devised the scenario,...
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ArticleStormy Weather Katherine Dunham in the 1943 Twentieth Century Fox Picture "Stormy Weather." Still from "Stormy Weather" courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved. Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Filmed with an illustrious all-black cast, Stormy Weather was released by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1943. Directed by Andrew L. Stone, it is a story of song-and-dance man Bill Williamson (played by... -
ArticleTango Katherine Dunham in "Tango." Photographer, Basabé, Dorien. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Originally choreographed as a part of Jazz in Five Movements, which premiered in Paris in 1948, Tango was performed as an independent work, with an entirely different character, in Buenos Aires in 1954. It was danced in anger and protest against the political situation that... -
CollectionSelections from the Katherine Dunham Collection [Katherine Dunham, dancer, three-quarter length portrait] (top to bottom) Katherine Dunham as Woman with a Cigar from Tropics, by Alfredo Valenti; Katherine Dunham in the 1940 Broadway hit production of Cabin in the Sky; Katherine Dunham in Le Jazz Hot, originally presented in 1939; Katherine Dunham in a 1952 photograph of Floyd's Guitar Blues. This collection consists of moving image materials that document the...- Contributor: Dunham, Katherine
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ArticleKatherine Dunham Timeline- Date: 1909