African Dance Katherine Dunham Katherine Dunham is known as of the most influential African American individuals, when it come down to the art of African Dance. Her unprecedented blend of cultural anthropology with the artistic genre of dance in the eartly 1930’s produced ground breaking forms of movement in the United states. Dunham established African-American dance as an art in its own. Her professionalism lead the way for many other notable African dancers like Alivin …showed first 75 words of 1463 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1463 total…as they have without the efforts of Katherine Dunham "who captured the love and admiration of the whole world of dance."(Emery, 17) Dunham is a dancer, choreographer, writer, anthropologist, and educator and has been called a 'split personality' by dance critic John Martin because of this diversity. Most importantly, "Katherine Dunham is a true humanist who takes seriously the inherent worth of the individual, no matter what class or culture that individual comes from."(Rose, 43)