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During her heyday in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, she was renowned throughout Europe and Latin America as La Grande Katherine, and the Washington Post called her "Dance's Katherine the Great."
For more than 30 years she maintained the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, the only permanent, 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 African-American modern dance as well as a leader in the field of Dance Anthropology, or Ethno choreology (see also Dance Studies). In 1992, at the age of 82, Katherine Dunham went on a highly publicized 47-day hunger strike to protest what she condemned as the discriminatory U.S. foreign policy against Haitian boat-people.
In 1979 at Carnegie Hall, Dunham received the Albert Schweitzer Music Award "for a life's work dedicated to music and devoted to humanity."
In 1987 she was received the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award, and was also inducted into the Hall of Fame of National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, NY.
In 1983, she was a recipient of one of the highest artistic awards in the USA, the Kennedy Center Honors.
In 1989, Dunham was awarded a National Medal of Arts, an honor shared by only two other University of Chicago alumni, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.
Dunham has her own star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
In 2000 she was named one of the first 100 of "America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures by the Dance Heritage Coalition, and she has also been featured in the PBS Born to Dance series.
In 2005, she was awarded "Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research" by Congress on Research in Dance (CORD)
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