Katherine Dunham, dancer, anthropologist and author, dies at 96

From: Chicago Defender | Date: May 24, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

NEW YORK - Katherine Dunham, a pioneering dancer and choreographer, anthropologist, author and civil rights activist who abandoned Broadway decades ago to teach culture in one of America's poorest cities, has died. She was 96.

Dunham, who was based in East St. Louis, Ill., for decades, died Sunday at the Manhattan assisted living facility where she lived, said Charlotte Ottley, the executive liaison for the organization tasked with preserving her artistic estate. The cause of death was not immediately clear.

Dunham is perhaps best known for bringing African and Caribbean influences into the ...

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