Thousands of items that belonged to late dancer and activist Katherine Dunham will be auctioned next week. Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers, based in St. Louis, will offer an auction titled “Divine ...

If Cities Could Dance is KQED Arts’ award-winning video series featuring dancers across the country who represent their city’s signature moves. Download English transcript. On the banks of the wide, ...

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Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Both Marie-Christine Dunham Pratt, Katherine Dunham’s daughter ...

On Thursday, which would have been her 97th birthday, a banner stretched across Lincoln Middle School, proclaiming “East St. Louis honors ‘Empress’ Katherine Dunham” during A Familial Memorial ...

3 Review Roundup: JUST IN TIME Opens on Broadway Starring Jonathan Groff How many Broadway shows has The Katherine Dunham Dancers been in? The Katherine Dunham Dancers has appeared on Broadway in 1 ...

Katherine Dunham, a legendary dancer, choreographer and social force, died Sunday in her sleep. She was 96. Charlotte Ottley, executive liaison for Katherine Dunham Legacy Affairs, said Dunham died at ...

It was a bitterly cold winter day three years ago when I last saw the pioneering choreographer Katherine Dunham teach. She was rolled into the Howard University dance studio in her wheelchair, bundled ...

EAST ST. LOUIS • If the Katherine Dunham Museum had anything resembling glory years during its recent past, they ended at the start of this decade. That’s when the museum used up the last of a ...

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Ms. Dallas taught the Afro-Caribbean-influenced Dunham dance technique in Europe well into her 90s. She also had a career as a blues, jazz and R&B singer. By Alex Vadukul Othella Dallas, who was one ...

Katherine Dunham, a pioneering dancer and choreographer, author and civil rights activist who left Broadway to teach culture in one of America’s poorest cities, died May 21 in New York. She was 96.