Katherine Dunham: Matriarch And Queen Mother Of Black Dance

Katherine Dunham was born on June 22, 1909, in Chicago, Illinois. Katherine was an African American Dancer, Choreographer, Educator, and Social Activist. Katherine Dunham had one of the most successful Dance careers in America and Europe Theater of the 20th century. she directed her own Dance company for many years. She has been dubbed “the Matriarch and Queen Mother of Black Dance”. During her heyday in 1940’s and 1950’s era, Dunham was renowned throughout Europe and Latin America and was widely popular in the United States, where the Washington Post called her, “Dancer Katherine the Great”, for almost thirty years Katherine Dunham maintained the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, the company had a successful run on Broadway .Katherine Dunham