Vintage Haiti: 🇭🇹 Katherine Dunham in Port-au-Prince in 1962. Ms. Dunham formed Ballet Negre, one of the first black ballet companies in the United States, in 1930, and studied the dances of Haiti Jamaica and Trinidad as part of her anthropological fieldwork. 🎥 @vintageblackglamour #lunionsuite #haiti #haitian #portauprince #vintagestyle #vintagehaiti #dance #fashion | The Haitian American

Katherine Dunham Dancer, choreographer, social activist, author and anthropologist. She is an artist of multiple talents. She studied the dances, the cultures and the traditional rites of the African diaspora and founded the first African American modern dance troupe. As a result of her research she made a few films, including the remarkable Carnival of Rhythm, in 1941. She also appeared in movies such as Stormy Weather, Pardon my Sarong, Casbah and Star Spangled Rhythm. Furthermore she created

🌹Katherine Dunham🌹 “The Matriarch of Black Dance” is a legendary dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist who revolutionized American dance in the 1930s by going back to the roots and rituals of black dance then bringing it to the stage with the use of folk and ethnic choreography, which would later be the foundation for the Dunham Technique. Celebrate Katherine Dunham’s legacy by learning more about her influence and taking a Dunham Technique class on our platform today✨ 🎞: “Ballet Creole”