{"identifier":"DAF-Evening_6312198857112","browse_author":"Louines Louinis Afro-Haitian Dance Theater (Dancer(s)), Andrew Mantell-Seidel (Director) and DanceArts Foundation, Inc. (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video))","subscription_list":["bvl_dancesch"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350919396,"description":"Presents the legendary dancer Katherine Dunham at age 97. Beginning with a tribute to Dunham's career, the program contains rare footage of Dunham drumming with percussionists and a discussion of her views on rhythmic motion, Haitian dance, and love. Includes a performance by the Louines Louinis Afro-Haitian Dance Theater. Katherine Dunham, pseudonym Kaye Dunn, (born June 22, 1909, Glen Ellyn, Ill., U.S.\u2014died May 21, 2006 New York, N.Y.), American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist noted for her innovative interpretations of ritualistic and ethnic dances. Dunham early became interested in dance. While a student at the University of Chicago, she formed a dance group that performed in concert at the Chicago World\u2019s Fair in 1934 and with the Chicago Civic Opera company in 1935\u201336. On graduating with a bachelor\u2019s degree in anthropology she undertook field studies in the Caribbean and in Brazil. By the time she received an M.A. from the University of Chicago, she had acquired a vast knowledge of the dances and rituals of the black peoples of tropical America. (She later took a Ph.D. in anthropology.) In 1938 she joined the Federal Theatre Project in Chicago and composed a ballet, L\u2019Ag\u2019Ya, based on Caribbean dance. Two years later she formed an all-black company, which began touring extensively by 1943. Tropics (choreographed 1937) and Le Jazz Hot (1938) were among the earliest of many works based on her research. Dunham was both a popular entertainer and a serious artist intent on tracing the roots of black culture. Many of her students, trained in her studios in Chicago and New York City, became prominent in the field of modern dance. She choreographed for Broadway stage productions and opera\u2014including Aida (1963) for the New York Metropolitan Opera. She also choreographed and starred in dance sequences in such films as Carnival of Rhythm (1942), Stormy Weather (1943), and Casbah (1947). In addition, Dunham conducted special projects for African American high school students in Chicago; was artistic and technical director (1966\u201367) to the president of Senegal; and served as artist-in-residence, and later professor, at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and director of Southern Illinois\u2019s Performing Arts Training Centre and Dynamic Museum in East St. Louis, Ill. Dunham was active in human right causes, and in 1992 she staged a 47-day hunger strike to highlight the plight of Haitian refugees. Dunham\u2019s writings, sometimes published under the pseudonym Kaye Dunn, include Katherine Dunham\u2019s Journey to Accompong (1946), an account of her anthropological studies in Jamaica; A Touch of Innocence (1959), an autobiography; Island Possessed (1969); and several articles for popular and scholarly journals. The recipient of numerous awards, Dunham received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1983 and the National Medal of Arts in 1989. Language - English","videoId":6312198857112,"browse_view":"contentTypeBrowsePageIndexView","subscription":"bvl_dancesch","title":"An evening with Katherine Dunham","xml_source":"bvl_dancesch_video-vra.xml","browse_search":"DAF-Evening","videoPoster":"https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4171818645001/57d79aab-404c-4f25-a67c-21cee2211705/c3354820-93ea-4cb2-92e2-5f440b2c445c/1280x720/match/image.jpg","facets":"dancersChoreographers , Dancers / choreographers , documentaryFilm , Documentary film , dance , Dance , beliefRitualsAndWorship , Belief, rituals and worship , modernityAndModernism , Modernity and modernism , ethnicity , Ethnicity , peopleOfColour , People of colour , anthropology , Anthropology , artsAndLiterature , Arts and literature , identity , Identity , _19001999 , 1900\u20131999 , made_20002009 , 2000\u20132009 , made_2000Present , 2000\u2013present , english , English , northAmerica , North America , unitedStates , United States , origin_northAmerica , North America , origin_unitedStates , United States , video , Video , filmAndCinema , Film and Cinema ,","contenttypeorder":3,"date_of_publication":2008,"publisher":"Louines Louinis Afro-Haitian Dance Theater DanceArts Foundation, Inc.","productname":"bvl_all","id_search":"DAF-Evening","facet":["_19001999","anthropology","artsAndLiterature","beliefRitualsAndWorship","dance","dancersChoreographers","documentaryFilm","english","ethnicity","filmAndCinema","identity","made_20002009","made_2000Present","modernityAndModernism","northAmerica","origin_northAmerica","origin_unitedStates","peopleOfColour","unitedStates","video"],"contentType":"video","authors":"Louines Louinis Afro-Haitian Dance Theater~Andrew Mantell-Seidel~DanceArts Foundation, Inc."}