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* Katherine Dunham-African-American dancer, and anthropologist, originally a ballet dancer she founded her first company Ballet Negre in 1936 and later the Katherine Dunham Dance Company based in Chicago, Illinois.

Dunham opened a school in New York ( 1945 ) where she taught Katherine Dunham Technique, a blend of African and Caribbean movement ( flexible torso and spine, articulated pelvis and isolation of the limbs and polyrhythmic movement ) integrated with techniques of ballet and modern dance.