Inventory: The Katherine Dunham Collection [finding aid]

Title

Inventory: The Katherine Dunham Collection [finding aid]

Place of Publication/Creation

Washington, D.C.

Genre

finding aid

Date Issued

2004

Publisher

Library of Congress

Issuance

monographic

The Katherine Dunham Collection consists of materials purchased from the archives of the Dunham Centers in East St. Louis, Illinois, and is made possible through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Note

The Collection comprises 1,694 items in a variety of video/motion picture formats. It documents many aspects of Dunham?s dance career: her work as a choreographer, her dance technique and teaching method, various of her performances and productions, and her anthropological analysis of the dance and ritual of the African diaspora. The Collection also testifies to her global activism and leadership in the field of human rights and her advocacy of African American causes in her community.

Updated

03-06-2007

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