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Look At Katherine Dimhhrtr
The legendary Katherine
Dunham ie one of Ame
ric’i most respected en
trepreneur* in the field of
performing arts and is in
ternationally known for re
creating anH popularising
the so-called primitive
forms of dance. Her life
and work are profiled in an
boor-long special over PBS
when DANCE IN
AMERICA’S “Divine
Drumbeats: Katherine
Dunham and Her People,”
takes an ««*■>— and in
timate look at this dynamic
woman on Wednesday,
April 1C, M p m. an Chan
nel SB’s Great Perform
Videotaped in Haiti and
revealing performance
profile is produced by
• WNET-Tbirteen Hew York.
Dance in American is
from Exxon, The Nattamd
Endowment for the Arts
and The Corporation for
Piddle Broadcasting, with
Additional support from
Potdic television stattam.
An integral element in
“Divine Drumbeats: Ka
therine Dunham and Her
* people" and one rarely
witnessed by outsiders, is
the color sad pageantry of
a traditional vaudon (voo
doo) ceremony performed
in Haiti. It is there in that
West Inches country that
the Dance In American
carmens also recorded an
exclusive interview with
tong and remarkable
career, bar early motion
picture work in Hollywood,
her active involvement in
civil rights, her work as aa
anthropologist and above
all her mommeotal contri
butions to the world of
dance.
During the
viewers will be treated to
vintage motion picture
footage from the IMO’s
when mas Dunham cho
reographed and was the
featured <tm»w*** in a num
ber of musical films. Per
haps among her best
remembers and one which
is excerpted for the special,
is “Stormy Weather,” in
which she danced the title
number and far which she
_- also was choreographer.__
Other classic documentary
fijft font ago from that era
recounts Miss Dunham's
dance company when it
was at the bright of its
l. An additional feature of
theg|R=ial, videotaped in
Nashville, is Miss Dun
ham’s “Rites de Pass
ages,” perhaps the best
csample of her ability to
aae primitive forms and
rhythms as theatrical
media. She originally -
created the score to ac
company a lecture she de
livered at Yale University
and in the special it is
performed ty members of
the original Katherine Dun
ham Dance Company and
the School of the Perform
itenter m
Southern Illinois Univers
ity in East St.1 found
ed by Mias Dunham. The
costumes were designed by
Miss Dunham’s husband,
John Pratt.
“I could not have asked
for anything more than to
have Dance in American
bring my work to so many
notes Mias Dunham. “I
have worked far so many
years to express the
heritage of the American
Negro through dance. Now
I can give some of what I
have learned from the cul
tures of other countries
back to my own country.”
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