How Did Katherine Dunham Die? Date of Death, Cause of Death, Age, and Birthday

Katherine Dunham death

The dancer Katherine Dunham passed away at age 96, astounding.

Biography - A Short Wiki

Choreographer, dancer, and anthropologist all in one, she collected ethnic, ritualistic dances, re-interpreted and staged them.

She married John Pratt, a theatrical designer, who worked with her in 1938 at the Chicago Federal Theatre Project and became her artistic partner.

How did Katherine Dunham die?

Natural Causes caused Katherine Dunham's death in 2006.

Information about the death of Katherine Dunham
Cause of deathNatural Causes
Age of death96 years
ProfessionDancer
BirthdayJune 22, 1909
Death dateMay 21, 2006
Place of deathN/A
Place of burialN/A

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Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world.

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Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.

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I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person.

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For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.

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So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don’t you will die inside as a person.

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