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In East S. Louis, il­
linois, there is a Per ormin
Arts Training Center that
has hanged the li es 0
hundreds of poor people
li in there. blac and
hne. It as founded .
atherine Dunham. the
orid-reno ned bla
pioneer in dance nd
horeo raph no in her
enti . She is also an an­
thropologist.
She regards the cent r as
her finest chie ement and
sa s, "1 am a firm belie er
in hat human bein s can
do."
From her earli t hild­
hood in Chicago, Katherine
Dunham has been fascina­
ted b dance and theater.
t the age of nine he
shoe ed the elders of her in
church by tagin a cabaret f
to raise money for mission- 19
ary or. She was deter-Ph
mined to ma e dancin her
career, but he was not in­
terested onl in performin .
atherine founded a school
of dane in Chicago when
he as bare I t ent -one.
Becau he anted to Bro n, had e ery reason to e. peel
understand the cultural Fu eli from hi enthusiasm and
traditions of blac dance. ·t expression of inter t.
he tra eled to the est In- March 10, 1 1 . r. Wh�on has failed
dies to tud their origins at �" dear. tr . Stone.' � In nothing he has car-
,VI ed notesv oaid SATURDAY 6:30 p.m.
fir � hand. · ... People around Bo ton n no�es Pal man bills MERCHANTS HALL
Her greatest impact, seem to ha e aotren from hIS personal ccount
ho ever, has been as a per- discouraged about the �d has made man. dona-
former. ith the troupe of building and I can t get an nons to the fund. For my - ••• - ...
dancers he trained. and for money to go ahead. It � last effort for urrent e - :'11 ..
hom she has done her a rather ambitious under- penses I ha e been abl to: B GO:
mo�t dra�at�c, Afro/-taking, I am a raid to admit pa up the tea h�rs for 2: EVERY ED ESDAY:
Caribbean-inspired chore- but I didn't rna e one step month bac salanes. : MERCHA THALL :
ography, Katherin Dun- rs. Stone about the Surelj (ha labored: :
ham h eled all ' h led I h .Formerely r e Alley, Ptaz -
as trav over building without the advice two 0 \: 0 P ges a e: "Co. YOU" Dem. :
orth and South America, of the local Trustee. Our been unable to ollect. �""'''''II.II.'''''II C
Europe, Australia and the first plan you ill I no not h, I am ".. _
Far East. She has brought remember' as for too much discoura ed to
the experience of the black 500,<XX> which ould have thin . I fed as Elijah felt
heritage to people. all over covered everything under .an�y� saying almo t dai­
the world and has influenc- normal conditions. The ly It IS enough-no ta e
ed enerations of American need for the building was so m life I have no desire to
dan�.. great r Wharton and r go on. ". Perhaps ith this � ........... iiiiii ......
This IS the SlO of a Richardson, ho has since foundation and �ess om ------------
rernar�able oman �o died voted to carry it on in out fr�m strugglin those
has. t�urnp�ed over racial spite of the rise, the ho III folIo soon. greet
prejudice, III health and promisin to hare equally a ne dawn. I am irnpl
financial disaster to rna e a the southern burden. i. down and out that i all.
uniqu pia e for bla k Richardson had paid in on- n rv are just h -
dan in the United States. lv 500 0 the 5 e tered, and I m really unfit
. · to plan anythin ....
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Portrait of tar
revie of Katherine
Dunham, by Jame
Has ins Yor : Co -
ard cCann & Geog­
h an, Inc. 19 2). 1 0
pa e -Hard 0 er-
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