Kaiso! Writings by and about Katherine Dunham

Kaiso!
	Contents
	Acknowledgments
		Note on Orthography
		Chronology
		Introduction: Diamonds on the Toes of her Feet (SARA E. JOHNSON)
	PART 1 Autobiographical Reflections
		The Rabbit Hunt: Excerpt from A Touch of Innocence (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		The Closed Room: Excerpt from A Touch of Innocence (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Excerpt from Journey to Accompong (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Excerpt from Island Possessed (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Prologue: Excerpt from “Minefields” (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Survival: Chicago after the Caribbean: Excerpt from “Minefields” (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Early New York Collaborations: Excerpt from “Minefields” (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
	PART 2 Dunham the Woman: SCHOLAR, ARTIST, ACTIVIST
		The Lost Ten Years: The Untold Story of the Dunham-Turbyfill Alliance (ANN BARZEL, MARK TURBYFILL, RUTH PAGE)
			Dunham\'s Contribution (ANN BARZEL)
			Excerpts from the Diary (MARK TURBYFILL)
			In Appreciation (RUTH PAGE)
		Miss Dunham Is Sensation in Haitian Dances (EDWARD BARRY)
		The Negro in the Dance, as Katherine Dunham Sees Him 191 (FREDERICK L. ORME)
		La Boule Blanche (KATHERINE DUNHAM, writing as KAYE DUNN)
		L’ag’ya of Martinique (KATHERINE DUNHAM, writing as KAYE DUNN)
		Designing Dunham: John Pratt’s Method in Costume and Décor: An Interview with John Pratt (VEVE A. CLARK)
		Katherine Dunham’s Notable Contribution (JOHN MARTIN)
		Thesis Turned Broadway (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		The Negro Dance (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		An Amazing Aura: Interview with Katherine Dunham (VEVE A. CLARK)
		Modern Dance Owes a Lot to Lovely Katherine Dunham (SUE BARRY)
		Collaborating with Balanchine on Cabin in the Sky: Interviews with Katherine Dunham (CONSTANCE VALIS HILL)
		A Talk with Katherine Dunham (DORATHI BOCK PIERRE)
		Better Race Relationships Hoped by Seattle Dancer
		Dunham Weary of Hotel Trek
		Comment to a Louisville Audience (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Watching Dunham’s Dances, 1937-1945 (SUSAN MANNING)
		Goombay (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Thirty Days among Maroons (ZORA NEALE HURSTON)
		On Stage with the Dunham Company: An Interview with Vanoye Aikens (VEVE A. CLARK)
		The Dance in the National Youth Administration (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Bal Negre Program
		Schoolmarm Turned Siren or Vice Versa (JOHN MARTIN)
		Caribbean Backgrounds Program
		Katherine Dunham Raises Primitive Dance Art to New Heights of Sophistication (PETER WADDINGTON)
		Katherine Dunham, Observed in London
		Touring Europe with the Dunham Company (EARTHA KITT)
		Katherine Dunham and Us (ABDIAS DO NASCIMENTO)
		Performing the Memory of Difference in Afro-Caribbean Dance: Katherine Dunham\'s Choreography, 1938-1987 (VEVE A. CLARK)
		Southland Program: A Dramatic Ballet in Two Scenes (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Katherine Dunham’s Southland: Protest in the Face of Repression (CONSTANCE VALIS HILL)
		An Anthropological Band of Beings: An Interview with Julie Robinson Belafonte (VEVE A. CLARK)
		Foreword to Katherine Dunham’s Dances of Haiti (CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS)
		Katherine Dunham: An Appreciation (ALFRED METRAUX)
		Notes on Dances for Aida (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		The Caribbean Islands Now and Then (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Caribbean Tourist Tips (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Getting the Show on the Road: An Excerpt (RUTH BECKFORD)
		Plan for an Academy of West African Cultural Arts (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Address Delivered at the Dakar Festival of Negro Arts (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Dunham Jailed Following Protest
		Katherine Dunham (GWEN MAZER)
		Her Careers Are Manifold (VANDY BREWER)
		The Dance with Death (MARTHA SHERRILL)
	PART 3 Stories and Poems
		Come Back to Arizona (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Afternoon into Night (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Baio (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Béguine (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		The Babies of Biafra (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Charité: Excerpt from “Elifait” (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		The Market Place at Pétionville: Excerpt from “Elifait” (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		The Census Takers: Excerpt from Kasamance (KATHERINE DUNHAM))
	PART 4 Dunham Technique
		Interview with Katherine Dunham (VEVE A. CLARK)
		Katherine Dunham School of Arts and Research: Brochure, 1946-1947
		The Dunham Schools (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Dunham Technique Seminars (JOYCE ASCHENBRENNER)
		Dunham Technique: Barre Work and Center Progressions (ALBIRDA ROSE)
		How She Began Her Beguine: Dunham\'s Dance Literacy (MILLICENT HODSON)
		Form and Function in Primitive Dance (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		The Anthropological Approach to the Dance (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Notes on the Dance (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Need for Study of Dances of Primitive Peoples (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Dunham Technique: Prospectus (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		The World in Dance and Ritual: World Dance Film Project (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Focal Rites: New Dance Dominions (ROY THOMAS)
		Dance as a Cultural Art and Its Role in Development (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
	PART 5 Preserving the Legacy
		Performing Arts Training Center as a Focal Point for a New and Unique College or School (KATHERINE DUNHAM)
		Cultural Fusion and Spiritual Unity (EUGENE REDMOND)
		Institute for Intercultural Communication (JEANELLE STOVALL)
		Katherine Dunham Museum (JEANELLE STOVALL)
		Honoring Katherine Dunham, 26 May 1976 (ST. CLAIR DRAKE)
		Dunham 1O1: An Interview with Glory Van Scott (VEVE A. CLARK)
		The Kennedy Center Honors (CARLA HALL and JOE BROWN)
		Dance’s Dynamic Duo: Alvin Ailey in Collaboration with Katherine Dunham (ALAN M. KRIEGSMAN)
		Ailey Does Dunham (ALAN M. KRIEGSMAN)
		The Jamaican Connexion (REX NETTLEFORD)
		The Yoruba Orisha Tradition Comes to New York City (MARTA MORENO VEGA)
		Katherine Dunham, a Pioneer of Postmodern Anthropology (HALIFU OSUMARE)
		Katherine Dunham: One-Woman Revolution (WENDY PERRON)
		Instituting Dunham (K. C. PATRICK)
	APPENDIXES, GLOSSARY, CONTRIBUTORS
		Appendix 1. Stage Choreography by Katherine Dunham, 1937-1972
		Appendix 2. Film Choreography by Katherine Dunham, 1939-1964
		Appendix 3. Selected Bibliography of Writings by Katherine Dunham
		Appendix 4. Selected Bibliography of Writings about Katherine Dunham
		Glossary
		Notes on Contributors
	Index