Katherine Dunham collection
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Romero, Carmencita, 1914- 2001
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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, 19...
Ellis, Lucille, 1919-1998
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Lucille Ellis (October 5, 1919 - November 12, 1998) was an African American dancer, who became a prominent member of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company and later a respected teacher of the Dunham Technique and stager of Dunham's work. Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Ellis joined Dunham's troupe in Chicago, Illinois while still a teenager. Dunham selected Ellis for the production, Tropical Pinafore (1940), which she was staging and choreographing for the American Negro Light Opera Association in Ch...
Katherine Dunham Company
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The Katherine Dunham Company was an African American modern dance troupe founded by Katherine Dunham to serve her unique artistic vision. The company would go through several iterations involving various changes of name and personnel over the course of its more than twenty years of existence (approximately 1937-1960). In 1930, while still a student at the University of Chicago, Dunham formed Ballet Nègre, one of the first black ballet companies in the United States. The company would give its fi...
