WHAT: DUNHAM DANCE TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP
WHERE: Contemporary Dance Theater College Hill Town Hall
WHEN: Saturday & Sunday, July 17 & 18, 2010 from 1-3:00
HOW MUCH: $15 for one class, $25 for both
WHO: Jan Blunt, founding member of Cincinnati's African American Drum and Dance Ensemble and student of Dunham technique for 25 years
Jan Blunt is a native Cincinnatian who relocated to Southern California in 1986. A founding member of Cincinnati’s African American Drum and Dance Ensemble, she has been a student of Dunham technique for 25 years. She specializes in West African, Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian dance.
Katherine Mary Dunham (1909-2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, author, educator and activist who was trained as an anthropologist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in American and European theater of the 20th century. During her heyday in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, she was renowned throughout Europe and Latin America. For more than 30 years she maintained the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, the only self-subsidized American black dance troupe at that time, and over her long career she choreographed more than 90 individual dances. Dunham was an innovator in modern dance as well as a leader in the field of Dance Anthropology.
