Dedicated to Dunham

* February 25, 2007

* Sunday, February 25

1:00–5:00 p.m.

* Kaufmann and Linder Theaters, first floor

* Free with Museum admission

* For details, visit www.amnh.org/blackhistory or call 212-769-5315.

These performances, workshops, and symposia celebrate the life and legacy of Katherine Dunham (1909–2006), a skilled anthropologist; an accomplished dancer, choreographer, and teacher; and a humanitarian and historian.

Dunham studied the African origins of Caribbean dance and rituals, leading to the establishment of a new subdiscipline of anthropology and the development of the Dunham Technique, a dance form that fuses Caribbean, African, and modern dance with ballet, and is still taught today. She founded the first selfsustaining African-American dance troupe. She spoke out against racial segregation and was passionately involved in Haitian-American relations, living in Haiti half the year.

Join this celebration in honor of Ms. Dunham’s many contributions, featuring performances, workshops, and symposia with an array of local companies, national dance troupes, and noted educators and historians. Participants include founding members of Paradigm, Gus Solomons jr and Carmen de Lavallade; ASE Dance Theatre Collective; David Pleasant/Now Griot!*; Obediah Wright Balance Dance Theatre; and a special Dunham presentation featuring advanced students from The Ailey School.

Dedicated to Dunham is coproduced with Community Works and New Heritage Theatre Group.