2. Katherine Dunham was an extraordinary artist, an anthropologist, author, activist movie star, producer, manager, an educator as well as a motivating wife and mother. She was born on June 22, 1909 in the state of Chicago. Her father is African American and her mother is French Canadian. Even as a child Katherine Mary Dunham was always a rule breaker. She always took that one step out of the boundaries and changed everything for the better. When Katherine Dunham was young she used to sing gospel music for the local Methodist Church in Joliet that her family attended every Sunday. When her church started to have financial problems at the age of eight she started to sing songs that didn’t come close to gospel at parties to raise money for it.
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So ````brother Albert Dunham Jr., attended the University of Chicago. Where she became one of the first African American women to attend that university. She ended up earning her bachelor, masters, and doctoral degree in anthropology.
During those events she became ludmilla Speranzeva’s student in the Moscow Theater, owned by Mark Turbyfill and Ruth Page. When she graduated she was the founder of a dance group she formed which is called the Negro Dance group. Dancing with Rosenwals stern along with the Chicago opera Company, the Negro Dance Group performed at the Chicago Beaux Arts Theater in the production “a negro Rhapsody’. She was later offered to dance for the Rosenwald Foundation which gave her enough money to travel to the Caribbean, which included Trinidad and Jamaica, as well as Haiti for two years.
During her time in the Caribbean, she studied all aspects of dance and their motivation, where she figured out dances personal and artistic resonances. She wrote many essays about her founding’s in her travels and sent them to magazines to become published as articles under the name K.
So ````brother Albert Dunham Jr., attended the University of Chicago. Where she became one of the first African American women to attend that university. She ended up earning her bachelor, masters, and doctoral degree in anthropology.
During those events she became ludmilla Speranzeva’s student in the Moscow Theater, owned by Mark Turbyfill and Ruth Page. When she graduated she was the founder of a dance group she formed which is called the Negro Dance group. Dancing with Rosenwals stern along with the Chicago opera Company, the Negro Dance Group performed at the Chicago Beaux Arts Theater in the production “a negro Rhapsody’. She was later offered to dance for the Rosenwald Foundation which gave her enough money to travel to the Caribbean, which included Trinidad and Jamaica, as well as Haiti for two years.
During her time in the Caribbean, she studied all aspects of dance and their motivation, where she figured out dances personal and artistic resonances. She wrote many essays about her founding’s in her travels and sent them to magazines to become published as articles under the name K.