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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, ...

Thousands of items that belonged to late dancer and activist Katherine Dunham will be auctioned next week. Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers, based in St. Louis, will offer an auction titled “Divine ...

On Thursday, which would have been her 97th birthday, a banner stretched across Lincoln Middle School, proclaiming “East St. Louis honors ‘Empress’ Katherine Dunham” during A Familial Memorial ...

Katherine Dunham, a legendary dancer, choreographer and social force, died Sunday in her sleep. She was 96. Charlotte Ottley, executive liaison for Katherine Dunham Legacy Affairs, said Dunham died at ...

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It was a bitterly cold winter day three years ago when I last saw the pioneering choreographer Katherine Dunham teach. She was rolled into the Howard University dance studio in her wheelchair, bundled ...

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Katherine Dunham, a pioneering dancer and choreographer, author and civil rights activist who left Broadway to teach culture in one of America’s poorest cities, died May 21 in New York. She was 96.