Early Life
Education
Accomplishments
100

The city was Katherine born in

Chicago, Illinois

100

The college she followed her brother to

University of Chicago

100

The name of the technique she created

The Dunham Technique

200

Katherines ballet teacher in 1928

Ludmilla Sparanveza

200

Dunhams major in college

Anthropology

200

The name of her dance company and how was it the first of its kind

Katherine Dunham Dance Company, first self-supported African-American dance company.

300

The club Dunham joined in Highschool

The Terpsichorean Club

300

Katherines job after college

A dance teacher!

300

How she broke barriers

Became the first African-American choreographer to work at the Metropolitan Opera

400

Theypes of dance forms she encountered through her study

East indian, Javanese, and Balinese dance forms.

400

The thesis name of the thesis she wrote in 1938

Dances of Haiti: Their Social Organization, Classification, Form, and Function

400

How long and where  her dance company toured for

All of the world for over three decades

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