Beautiful !!! Katherine Dunham's life is a lesson to the world ! And her contribution to dance is immense and extraordinary. Knowing more about her is worthwhile for every citizen of the world !

She is a precious peice of my soul. I love this woman dearly and I continue to be inspired by her. Her spirit lives on strongly present among the incarnated people she has touched. If not for this woman the world may not have known who Eartha Kitt was (another piece of my soul) and that would be a tragedy! There is no way to calculate the infinite ways this woman gave of her soul to this world. And soul is what we all needed...and still do. I know you will live on Mrs. Katherine because your work here is never done. Blessings to you and the wonderful people who captured, edited and posted this video.

It's great to know people that believes in dance, more than only steps... it's a way of living a better life... it's a way of knowing and communicating with people next to us...

Wow, I never heard of Katherine Dunham until I watched a documentary about Eartha Kitt. Eartha Kitt said that she learned how to dance at the Katherine Dunham school in NYC. She spoke so highly about her experience in Katherine Dunham's dance theater. Eartha Kitt credited it with the start of her career. Her comments made me want to learn more about Katherine Durham. Ms. Dunham seemed to be ground-breaker like Maya Angelo. I would love to watch more videos on the life of this remarkable lady.

Its so excellent how East St Louis came together and showed all the love and support we should.come.together more

Miss Dunham was a life compass … not just body movements but the spiritual aim of each combination …forever grateful 💖✨💐

She was gorgeous and in her film appearances combined great art, great dignity, great grace and great stature with great sexiness. Articulate, dignified, fueled by a great fire for achievement and good works, she lived a model life in every way.

Thank you for sharing the story of this extraordinary woman.

I LOVE KNOWLEDGE OF MY HISTORY, THAT IF IT WASN'T FOR OTHER STORYTELLERS, I MIGHT NEVER HAVE LEARNED IT. WE DO NEED ONE ANOTHER, GOD BLESS ALL!

Very inspiring video. Lots of information. Helps me a lot with my school work. Katherine Dunham was an amazing person

RIP Queen 😥♥️💪🏾✊🏾 St. Louis/ East St. Louis will never forget U!

Thank you for the above video on the legendary Katherine Dunham residing in East St. Louis, IL in her later years. On her biography, the host of the footage mistakenly said that Ms. Dunham was born outside Chicago. Actually, she was born in Chicago, but grew up in nearby Glen Ellyn, IL. When the video showed Ms. Dunham as a teenager in the late 20's, she had some semblance of the attractiveness she would show the world as a dancer, which was perfected over time, and truly blossomed in the 1940's, her heyday, when she physically matured into the beautiful primary performer that she became while running her dance troupe, along with a growing knowledge of African, African-American, and Afro-Caribbean dance, which she fused into ballet, and quite well, too. Another example of greatness is her alumna, Eartha Kitt, who joined the Dunham troupe in 1945 at 18, and was blessed with a gorgeous, athletic body from all that dancing. Both women were giants in their field, and are greatly missed. May they R.I.P., Power, and Beauty.

Learning of Katherine Dunham's legacy is a reminder of what it is to truly live life to it's full potential. Far, far beyond simply doing for one's self..... Amazing

so inspiring.....I'm so thankful that the creator blessed us with such a beautiful, loving, courageous and talented spirit. Her legacy lives on...in me, in you and in this temporary place (earth) we call home..This was awesome.

I love how this story was told of Ms. Dunham, however she resided in East St Louis IL. Not St Louis. I feel like this is a slight miss representation. Those who are not from East St Louis IL may not understand how all of our greats are tagged to St Louis MO. Leaving East St Louis IL with the tag of just crime and it is far from that.

A Legacy of GREATNESS... "You ain't only classy... You a Haile Selassie" Empress Katherine Formed the FIRST Black Dance Company

i ditto the words of rootsrundeeep! i honor your spirit mama dunham, thanks for the love!

💗❤Beauitful woman. Beautiful Soul. 💚

Yes, the choreographies are hers. she was very creative and very good at that. We cannot ignore that. But the moves are not hers. That all we do in Haiti. We just dance wit all your body. Our ancestors left Africa, they carry their culture. their food and their moves that we inherited. but because we adopted nature, follow their movement and make be a part of our dance and culture which are the imitation and observation of numerous of animal like the birds, horses, the sneak, and the sea, the trees, the sun moves complemented with African rituals, and we start making steps and move. Every dance has an African name that is completely unknown by even the african. We make songs that go with the rhythms of the drums, that is why every move got their own beats and every beat get their moves according to nature attitude. She had learned all that in HAITI. Take time to listen to her talking about Haiti, and you will see how grateful she is for that place Haiti has to be in her legacy.

That's true. Dunham could've lived and be welcomed at the same time in any part of the world. I memory of her early career serves me rightly, there was no world leader whom Dunham hadn't met on some formal level. She was a continental a la Jo Baker, Bricktop, and Haitian chanteuse Josephine Premice.

Happy Birthday to the amazing Ms. Dunham!!!

She was gorgeous, smart, loyal, and talented

Thank you for this.

So Colorlines says that her museum is going to close if they can't raise money to keep it open. Please consider preserving this history and museum.

speechless...

(Cont'd) East St. Louis, Illinois; Camden, New Jersey; the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Ok., and Sweet Auburn in Atlanta, GA, lost much of their vibrancy as time went on. Things changed, often not for the better. I think we sacrificed too much chasing "integration." This is not to say I preferred "separate but equal" but might have been willing to experiment with "separate AND equal." You see, there was then a vibrant life in black America. The Greenwood section of Tulsa was such an example. I think "integration" was at first at countermeasure against the violence being carried out by the Redeemers in the wake of the fall of Reconstruction!

I went to school with Darryl Braddix's daughter, who was also a Katherine Dunham dancer

I am related to her my last name is Dunham and my grandpa has looked up in our family tree

Absolutely wonderful and beautiful.

Learned about this legend from #DebbieAllen! Thankhs.

I learned about Katherine Dunham a long time ago. I was interested in dance and theatre. Ended up writing

so inspirational

9-2-21 SHE'S BEAU-TI-FUL AN STILL WAS I'M SO HAPPY THEY ARE RESTORING HER HOME & CENTER HERE IN EAST SAINT LOUIS ILLINOIS

great video! great woman!

Black dance she learn in Haiti. Remember she went to visit an felt on love with the culture an decided to stay for more than 30 years. Prood to say she lived there an stat learning to danse in Haiti

What happened to her husband & daughter ?

As far as Black dancing goes, you only hear about Alvin Ailey.

Amen.

(Cont'd) I think in the US cultural tradition, "interracial marriage," while encompassing marriages across any ethnic lines, really was that marriage between black and white, as it was also in South Africa. Many a Caucasian dignitary was married outside his ethnicity, Clair Chenault, Mitch McConnell, Phil Gramm, among many others that flew under the social radar, After all, Gramm was from Texas. But "intermarriages" between black and white rarely flew under that same radar, and this is therefore and historically the prime reference in the discussion on intermarriage. The focus on black and white might readily be traced back to the slave/apartheid economies in which it was certain not in the interests of the slaveholders to promote the feelings of equality among the enslaved for obvious reasons. The very idea of slavery was, after all, to maintain a permanent work force, not one that would have to be replenished every now and then. Oddly enough, according to Professor Ira Berlin, University of Maryland, the Atlantic slave trading was a matter of some four hundreds years.

2:40, for everyone that gets a link from me

(Cont'd) No chip on my shoulder intended. But from an historical and anthropological point of view, the word "native" or the plural of it, as used by the lady in this documentary, has carried the negative development connotation as in "backward," "retarded," or just plain not coming abreast of the European. But I suspect the speaker didn't mean it in that context, just an outdated lexical reference that should be discarded with the rest of past cultural nonsense as regards to African peoples and their North American/Caribbean/and South American kith and kin. Again, no chip on the shoulder intended.

the lip sync is off!

A an reality she is in LA .CA.underground Dance co.crenshaw district. Ok brother i. for 70 years all of the LA.CA PERFORMING they R.WONDA DANCE CO INC.! TV.SHOWS IN HOLLYWOOD'S UNDERGROUND PARTYS...X

JOHN 3:16 FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.

Wooooow The matriarch of black dance. Where is HAITI in all this? The place where she has to learn all These dances. People need to know that all these moves they are attributed to her are from Haiti culture that you people are calling VOODOO. tHE LADY WENT TO HAITI, FELL IN LOVE TO THE COUNTRY. STAYED THERE FOR MOST OF HER LIFE. SHE STILL GOT A HOUSE THERE. PEOPLE GIVE TO CESAR WHAT BELONG HERE. tHERE WAS NO JAMAICA,.SHE HAS to LIVE THERE FOR MORE THAN 30 YEAR. SHE Returns TO CHICAGO BECAUSE OF POLITICAL RAISON. HAITI WAS CHANGING. OK. aLL THIS BARRIERE SHE WAS BREAKING UP THAT WAS BECAUSE OF HAITI. WANT TO KNOW WHAT ROLL OF HAITI IT ALL OF THIS. TELL US. Soon you going YOU WILL SAY THAT HAITI TAKE THEM FROM HER. WE LOVE HERE BUT SHE LEARNED HER MOVES FROM US.

ROMANS 6:23 FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.

Wow!! YES KATHERINE NOT KATTIE!! HER NAME IZ KATHERINE!!!