Carmencita Romero Collection, circa 1930-1957 and undated (MS Thr 2091). Houghton Library, Harvard University

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Carmencita Romero Collection, circa 1930-1957 and undated (MS Thr 2091). Houghton Library, Harvard University

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Photographs and programs of the work of dancer and choreographer Carmencita Romero (1914-2001)

.2 linear feet (1 box)

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11665766

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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...