Word: dunham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acrobatic Anthropologist. Like another outstanding Negro dancer, Katherine Dunham, Pearl, now 27, is a serious student of anthropology which, she claims, has a direct bearing on her art. She is now working for a Ph.D. at Columbia University. Says she: "What I try to express in my dancing is the culture of the Negro people. ... I am not preaching a 'back to Africa' movement. I am simply trying to show the Negro his African heritage and make him see that his culture had a dignity and strength and cleanliness. . . . I don't know yet what I have...
...recital, he has to borrow production money, pay it back from the box-office take. Says he: "We just barely break even. Everyone gets paid but me." What money he earns comes from a back-breaking teaching program: at Manhattan's Dance Players Studios, at the Katharine Dunham School, at Boston's Duncanbury School of the Arts, at Sarah Lawrence College...
...produced by Nelson L. Gross & Daniel Melnick) is the third of handsome Negro Choreographer Katherine Dunham's "revues" and, like her Tropical Revue and Carib Song, is really an evening of dancing. Miss Dunham has a well-nigh unapproached knowledge of the exotic dances of the West Indies and the Caribbean, which she has recreated in forms of her own. Bal Nègre offers a variety of them that, from a theater standpoint, seems badly lacking in variety. On its own terms, however, Bal Nègre often has a good deal of color and excitement...
...much as he has been learning. His current schedule includes graduate courses in English at New York City's Fordham University (which this summer awarded him a Ph.D. in Sociology and Political Philosophy); completion of a book on Caribbean social forms; supervision of two research projects at Katherine Dunham's School of Dance and Theatre, where he also teaches philosophy; lectures to discussion groups, university students...
...Theodore Dunham...