Katherine was a graduate
of the University of Chicago. , and was artist-in-residence at Southern
Illinois University. Later owned her own dance studio in 1931 (the
Katherine Dunham School of Dance) in New York and had a group
called the Katherine Dunham dancers who were one of the first all
black female dance groups. Choreographed such Films as "Cabin
in The Sky" in 1940 and "Stormy Weather" in 1943.
Dunham studied much of the African, Haitian and
Caribbean dance techniques and introduced many of them into her
choreogrphies. Dunham's travels took her to Jamaica, Trinidad, Cuba,
Martinique, Haiti, Africa an others. Dunham was also an Anthropologist
and used the pen name of K. Dunn for magazines such as Esquire.
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