Romero, Carmencita, 1914- 2001
Carmencita Romero (1914-2001) was a dancer who was associated with Katherine Dunham's earliest efforts to establish a dance company in Chicago, first, as a member of her short-lived Ballet Nègre, and as a charter member of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company. Romero later taught the Dunham Technique at schools in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
She was born Lily May Butler (there are many variant spellings of her first name on official records) in Brookhaven, Mississippi on January 2, 1914, but the family later moved to Chicago, Illinois. As Lily Butler, she began her dance training at 18, studying ballet and modern dance with Dunham and performing in her staging of the dances in the Chicago production of Run, Little Chillun in 1934. When Dunham returned from her anthropology fieldwork in the West Indies, Butler began learning the Afro-Caribbean dance forms that Dunham had studied in Jamaica, Martinique, Trinidad, and Haiti. In 1938, she appeared in the premiere of Dunham's full length work, L'Ag'Ya. Dunham chose Butler, who, by that time, had officially adopted the stage name, Carmencita Romero, as one of the dancers she took with her to New York when she received an offer to choreograph some numbers for a new edition of the Broadway revue, Pins and Needles, in 1939. Romero also would appear on Broadway with Dunham and the rest of the Dunham dancers in the hit Broadway musical, Cabin in the Sky (1940), touring with that production and remaining with the Dunham company until around 1942.
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