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  • What tiny percent of the public ever heard of Maria Tallchief, Alexander Schneider or Katherine Dunham?

    Robert J. Elisberg: Standing by Jerry Leiber (1933-2011) Robert J. Elisberg 2011

  • Dean takes Katherine Dunham's class with Eartha Kitt, who was a Dunham dancer from age 16-20, approximately, touring Europe and becoming cabaret star in Paris.

    Debra Levine: James Dean Broods... and Dances Debra Levine 2011

  • Dean takes Katherine Dunham's class with Eartha Kitt, who was a Dunham dancer from age 16-20, approximately, touring Europe and becoming cabaret star in Paris.

    Debra Levine: James Dean Broods... and Dances Debra Levine 2011

  • Wendy Perron, editor of DANCE Magazine, reminds us in a tweet that James Dean and Marlon Brando studied dance with the great Katherine Dunham.

    Debra Levine: James Dean Broods... and Dances Debra Levine 2011

  • Wendy Perron, editor of DANCE Magazine, reminds us in a tweet that James Dean and Marlon Brando studied dance with the great Katherine Dunham.

    Debra Levine: James Dean Broods... and Dances Debra Levine 2011

  • From the stage, Keith continued, “As Eleanor Roosevelt once said to Katherine Dunham, ‘No one does anything alone.’”

    One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010

  • From the stage, Keith continued, “As Eleanor Roosevelt once said to Katherine Dunham, ‘No one does anything alone.’”

    One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010

  • A movie offer from MGM came when she headlined a show at the Little Troc nightclub with the Katherine Dunham dancers in 1942.

    Lena Horne Dead: Singer Dies At 92 2010

  • Mr. Aguabella was a sacred drummer of the Santeria religion, a blend of traditional African and Catholic beliefs, who left Cuba in the 1950s to work with dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham on the movie "Mambo."

    Afro-Cuban drummer Francisco Aguabella dies at 84 Keith Thursby 2010

  • Other filmmakers who studied dance were Mura Dehn, noted for her filming of black dancers in Harlem, and Maya Deren, who studied with Katherine Dunham and featured Talley Beatty in her film A Study in Choreography for Camera.

    Dance Performance in the United States. 2009

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