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Seconding the Motion: Katherine Dunham

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Gives general introduction to Katherine Dunham's educational and artistic background, and then discusses her role as choreographer of a Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Aida. The author reports that while there is some controversy among reviewers about the marriage of Dunham's West Indies dance choreography and the classical Opera of Giuseppe Verdi, a “substantial body” of the audience seemed to love it. There is some discussion throughout of the dif...
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Keywords

  1. Aida
  2. Belly Dancing
  3. Dunham Pratt, Marie Christine
  4. Dunham, Katherine
  5. Limon, Jose
  6. Merrill, Nathaniel
  7. Metropolitan Opera Ballet
  8. Page, Ruth
  9. Performing Arts Subsidies
  10. Pratt, John
  11. Strasburg, Paula
  12. Verdi, Giuseppe

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