* 1909 – Katherine Dunham, American dancer ( d. 2006 )

1950 ) jazz dance was profoundly influenced by Caribbean and other Latin American dance styles which were introduced by anthropologist and dancer Katherine Dunham.

Isolations are a quality of movement that were introduced to jazz dance by Katherine Dunham.

In 1941, Deren wrote and suggested a children's book on dance to African American dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham and later became her personal secretary.

A source of inspiration for ritual dance was Katherine Dunham who wrote her master ’ s thesis on Haitian dances in 1939, which Deren edited.

* 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.

* Cabin in the Sky ( 1940 ), music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by John Latouche ; starring Ethel Waters and Katherine Dunham, who collaborated with Balanchine on the choreography

James ' mother briefly danced for Katherine Dunham and allegedly ran errands for a Mafia-connected mob, just to feed her family.

* 1983 — Katherine Dunham, Elia Kazan, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, and Virgil Thomson

One of the few racially integrated Project sites, the Chicago project employed Arna Bontemps, an established voice of the Harlem Renaissance, and helped to launch the literary careers of Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Katherine Dunham, and Frank Yerby ( Mangione 1972 ).

Kitt began her career as a member of the Katherine Dunham Company in 1943 and remained a member of the troupe until 1948.

She performed with the dance troupe of Katherine Dunham before making her professional debut in George Abbott's Brown Sugar.

He moved to United States in the fifties to join in a world tour with the Afroamerican dancer Katherine Dunham and her Dance Company.

Along with her contemporaries Martha Graham and Katherine Dunham Humphrey was one of the second generation modern dance pioneers who followed their forerunners – including Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn – in exploring the use of breath and developing techniques still taught today.

The dance program focuses on modern dance with an emphasis on African American choreographers, and teaches the techniques of Lester Horton, José Limón, Martha Graham, Katherine Dunham, and Alvin Ailey.

* Katherine Dunham

He was a certified master teacher of Katherine Dunham technique.

He studied dance at the Katherine Dunham School in New York ( 1945 ), whose teachers included Dunham, Lavinia Williams, Talley Beatty, Tommy Gomez, Archie Savage and Marie Bryant.

* Taught and performed at the Katherine Dunham celebration at Jacobs Pillow in 2002

Katherine Dunham in Tropical Revue

Samples were collected for DNA profiling by Dr. Katherine Taylor, who is with the King County, Washington Medical Examiner Office and also is a UW forensic anthropologist faculty affiliate, and sent as forensic evidence with the remains to law enforcement agencies in Washington state and Michigan.

* Katherine Dunham-dancer, choreographer

Katherine Dunham ( June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006 ) was an American dancer, choreographer, and company director as well as an author, educator, and social activist.

Its first stars and plaques were installed in 1989 ; the inductees that year were musician Chuck Berry, dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham, bridge builder James B. Eads, poet T. S. Eliot, ragtime composer Scott Joplin, aviator Charles Lindbergh, baseball player Stan Musial, actor Vincent Price, newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer and playwright Tennessee Williams.

Thiam settled in the United States in 1968, at the invitation of the noted choreographer Katherine Dunham.

Edison Park's settlement history dates back to 1834, with the arrival of pioneer Christian Ebinger Sr., 21, and his family: parents John and Katherine Ebinger and his new bride, Barbara.

* " When the Saints Go Marching In " w. Katherine E. Purvis m. James M. Black

Howatch followed a similar theme in her vast saga, The Wheel of Fortune, where the story of the Godwin family of Oxmoon in Gower, South Wales, is in fact a re-creation in a modern form of the story of the Plantagenet family of Edward III of England, the modern characters being created from those of his eldest son Edward of Woodstock ( The Black Prince ) and his wife Joan of Kent, John of Gaunt and his mistress and then wife, Katherine Swynford, Richard II ( son of Edward of Woodstock ), Henry IV ( son of John of Gaunt ) and Henry IV's eldest son King Henry V. Again the mansion represents the throne.

* How Katherine Dunham Revealed Black Dance to the World-New York Times

The Bombay Hills has many former athletes as residents including Eric Murray ( Olympic rower ), Katherine Prumm ( World Champion motorcyclist ) and Andy Dalton ( former All Black captain ).

Her other stage credits during this time include Lady Katherine in The Sleeping Clergyman at the Criterion Theatre in 1947, the fiancée in Peter Watling's Rain on the Just at the Old Vic in 1948, and Thea in Black Chiffon at the Westminster Theatre in 1949.

Katherine Evelyn Anita " Katie " Cassidy ( born November 25, 1986 ) is an American actress who has performed in The CW TV series Melrose Place, Supernatural and Gossip Girl alongside CBS Harper's Island, and on the films When a Stranger Calls, Black Christmas, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Taken, Monte Carlo, and has roles in the upcoming films Fencewalker, The Scribbler, and the superhero television series Arrow.

Boreanaz's only starring role in a major theatrical film was in 2001's slasher horror film, Valentine, alongside Denise Richards and Katherine Heigl.

Her notable theatrical roles include Young Woman in Machinal, Celia in As You Like It ( 1984 ), Madame de Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses ( 1985 ), Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew ( 1987 ), Winnie in Happy Days ( 2007 ), and the title roles in Electra ( 1988 ), The Good Person of Sechuan ( 1989 ), Hedda Gabler ( 1991 ), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1998 ) and Medea ( 2000 ).

* Disc 1 includes the film, 17 minutes deleted scenes, 2 tracks of directors ' and writer's commentary, filmmakers ' Q's & A's and interviews, theatrical trailer, 60 minutes of Joel Bakan interviewed by Janeane Garofalo on Majority Report, Air America Radio, 10 minutes of Katherine Dodds on grassroots marketing, 3 language ( English, French, Spanish ) subtitles, descriptive audio.

The version for European theatrical exhibition includes one brief scene with two actresses Barbara Crampton and Katherine Moffat appearing topless.

According to Katherine Litz, `` the becoming, the process of realization, is the dance ''.

The dream ballet, in which dancers Marc Platt, Katherine Sergava, and George Church doubled for the leading actors, successfully integrated dance into the musical's plot.

She has performed with Katherine Jenkins in the show Viva La Diva, appeared as guest judge on the BBC television show Strictly Come Dancing in 2009, and authored a series of dance books for children.

Bussell teamed up with Katherine Jenkins to stage a song and dance production to pay tribute to the stars who inspired them who include Madonna and Judy Garland.

Katherine Dunham wearing dance costume

" For almost thirty years she maintained the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, the only self-supported American black dance troupe at that time, and over her long career she choreographed more than ninety individual dances.

Katherine became interested in both writing and dance at a young age, displaying talent in both fields.

In 1950, Sol Hurok presented Katherine Dunham and Her Company in a dance revue at the Broadway Theater in New York, with a program composed of some of Dunham's best works.

In 1945, Dunham opened and directed the Katherine Dunham School of Dance and Theatre near Times Square in New York City after her dance company was provided with rent-free studio space for three years by an admirer, Lee Shubert ; it had an initial enrollment of 350 students.

The program included courses in dance, drama, performing arts, applied skills, humanities, cultural studies, and Caribbean research, and in 1947 it was expanded and granted a charter as the Katherine Dunham School of Cultural Arts.

when Katherine Dunham and her company skyrocketed into the Windsor Theater in New York, from Chicago in 1940, and made an indelible stamp on the dance world.

Alvin Ailey, who stated that he first became interested in dance as a professional career after having seen a performance of the Katherine Dunham Company as a young teenager of 14 in Los Angeles, called the Dunham Technique " the closest thing to a unified Afro-American dance existing.