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Katherine Dunham on her influence on American dance [video recording]
- Title
- Katherine Dunham on her influence on American dance
- Type of Material
- moving image
- Collection
- Katherine Dunham Collection (Library of Congress)
- Subjects
- Dunham, Katherine--Interviews
- Dunham, Katherine--Teachings
- Dancers--Interviews
- Dance teachers--Interviews
- Choreographers--Interviews
- Dunham Technique
- Content
- In a series of clips recorded in September 2002, Katherine Dunham speaks about her influence on American dance; dance anthropology; her anthropological films; Shango; L’Ag’Ya; the Mazouk from L’Ag’Ya; the need for a Dunham Technique; breathing in Dunham Technique; the circle of energy; the concept of the “pole through the body” in Dunham Technique; the hand in Dunham Technique; the position of the arm in Dunham Technique; and the use of the foot in Dunham Technique.
- Funding
- Vicky Risner, Executive Producer; Terry Carter, Producer/Director; Beate Glatved, Assistant to the Producer; Thomas Hurwitz, Director of Photography with funds from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to the Library of Congress for the documentation of Katherine Dunham’s dance technique.
- Videorecording identifier
- KD Intv 1of3
Last Updated: 09-27-2004