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Miss Dunham’s intellectual, artistic, and humanitarian contributions have earned her many coveted

awards over the years. She acted as advisor on the First World Festival of Negro Arts, held in

Senegal in 1965 and 1966. In 1980, she was the subject of a television special entitled,

"Divine Drumbeats: Katherine Dunham and Her People." 

 

 

Books by Eugene Redmond

Sides of the River (1969)  /  Sentry of the Four Golden Pillars (1970) / River of Bones and Flesh and Blood (1971) / Songs from an Afro/Phone (1972)

 In a Time of Rain & Desire (1973) / Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (2003) / Drumvoices

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Books by and about Katherine Dunham

 

Katherine Dunham Dancing a Life  / Island Possessed  / Black Dance from 1619 to Today  /  A Touch of Innocence: A Memoir of Childhood

 

Dances of Haiti  /  Equality For A Lightning Bug: A Small Collection of Poems  /  Journey to Accompong

 

Kaiso!: Writings by and about Katherine Dunham  /  Katherine Dunham: Pioneer of Black Dance

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Katherine Dunham

(22 June 1909 – 21 May 2006)

 

Drumvoices Festival of Arts #2: October 24-27, 2006

(Celebrating the 20th Birthday of the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club)

 

October 24:

       

“Katherine Dunham: A Literary Tribute” (with dance/drum/jazz interludes)

     12:30 p. m. -- Dunham Hall Theater  SIUE (free)  - Performers: Michael Castro, Community Performance

Ensemble, Roscoe Crenshaw, Mari Evans, Sherman L. Fowler, Charlois Lumpkin, Charlotte Ottley,

Howard Rambsy, Redmond, Darlene Roy, SIUE/ESL Center for Performing Arts, Jeffrey Skoblow,

Andrew Theising, Reginald Thomas, Lena Weathers.

     

“’Look on me and be renewed:’ Words from Indianapolis Poet Laureate Mari Evans”

     7:00 p.m. -- Mississippi-Illinois Room SIUE (free) - Soular System Ensemble opens performance

 

October 25:

 

“Forests of Poetrees”: EBR Writers Club 20th Birthday Reception

     7:00 p.m. -- Missouri History Museum, Lindell & DeBaliviere, St. Louis [by invitation]                                            

 

October 26:

 

“’The Architecture of Language’: A Poetry Reading by Quincy Troupe”

       12:30 p.m. – Dunham Hall Theater SIUE (free) - K. Curtis Lyle opens performance

 

“Fruits from Poetrees: EBRWC 20th Birthday & Awards Banquet”

                 7:00 p.m. -- Casino Queen Hotel Ballroom   200 Front Street   East St. Louis (Tickets: $30.00)

(Featuring Evans, Troupe, Jazz, &  Photo Exhibits)

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Books By Katherine Dunham

posted  4 October 2006

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Selections from the Katherine Dunham Collection at the Library of Congress

The Katherine Dunham Collection consists of materials purchased from the archives of the Dunham Centers in East St. Louis, Illinois, and is made possible through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The Collection comprises 1,694 items in a variety of video/motion picture formats. It documents many aspects of Dunham’s dance career: her work as a choreographer, her dance technique and teaching method, various of her performances and productions, and her anthropological analysis of the dance and ritual of the African diaspora. The Collection also testifies to her global activism and leadership in the field of human rights and her advocacy of African American causes in her community.

The materials in this collection are housed and available for use in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Reading Room. Viewing requests should be directed to the MBRS Reading Room at 202-707-8572. Items should be requestedusing the “Motion Picture ID#” given in this document. The numbers found in the field labeled “Tape #” are only included for use in provenance tracking. (Those are the numbers that were on the tapes at the Dunham Center Archives in East St. Louis.) Continued . . .

 

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updated 13 April 2009

 

 

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