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, ...

“What would I have been had I never gone to the Katherine Dunham School of Dance when I was a young dancer in New York?” asked Dr. Glory Van Scott. She spoke at the Missouri History Museum recently to ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- 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 ...

“She paved the way not only for East St. Louis, but for the world,” Kati Stovall said of the legendary dancer, choreographer, activist and author Katherine Dunham, Miss Dunham, who left worldwide fame ...

(AP) A star dancer for the great African-American choreographer Katherine Dunham has died. Longtime friend Robert Wood says Vanoye (van-OY’) Aikens died Saturday in Los Angeles at age 96. Aikens ...

The Smithsonian Institution's Marc Pachter interviews Katherine Dunham, choreographer, dancer, and anthropologist, as part of the education series, Living Self-Portraits, at the National Portrait ...

The dancer in translation : Baker's coauthored narratives -- The dancer as translator : Dunham's ethnographic memoirs -- Performing within primitivism : Baker on the French silent screen -- Cinematic ...

We asked a few members of the community, and our colleagues, who they would choose as their Women’s History Month hero, why that person inspired them, and what they wanted their own legacy to be. I ...