Minneapolis, MN —Lundstrum Performing Arts, Minnesota's premier educational program for dance, voice and drama, will host Five Days of Dance, Wednesday–Sunday, March 25 – 29, 2026 as part of its 2nd ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Riverhead High School art students created a 16-panel portrait of the trailblazing modern dancer Katherine Dunham for the ...

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Katherine Dunham, often hailed as the Matriarch of Black Dance, brought African cultures to American dance, like the Haitian dance and Rada traditions that inspired Yanvalou by composer Beth Denisch.

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 ...