Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham is known as of the most influential African American individuals, when it come down to the art of African Dance. Her unprecedented blend of cultural anthropology with the artistic genre of dance in the eartly 1930’s produced ground breaking forms of movement in the United states. Dunham established African-American dance as an art in its own. Her professionalism lead the way for many other notable African dancers like Alivin Ailey and Aurthur Mitchell (Beckford, 76). Dunham lived a middle class life in Glen Ellyn, Illionois, when later a tradject event tore the family apart; her mother died and left her brother Albert Jr. and herself to their father Albert Dunham Sr.. Later fiancial obligations lead Albert Sr. to sell the family’s home and accept a job as a travelling salesman. Dunham and her older brother Albert lived with their aunt Lulu, and then later stayed with their first cousin Clara Dunham, and her seventeen year old daughter. Both of the were actresses, who lived in an apartment that was also used as a rehearsal studio for black vaudeville shows, which they were producing. At that young age she was influenced by these talented women in her family and becam
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