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1949 Rare BLACK DANCE Co. Program Katherine DUNHAM Surrealist Andre BRETON Paris
1949 Rare BLACK DANCE Co. Program Katherine DUNHAM Surrealist Andre BRETON Paris
1949 Rare BLACK DANCE Co. Program Katherine DUNHAM Surrealist Andre BRETON Paris
1949 Rare BLACK DANCE Co. Program Katherine DUNHAM Surrealist Andre BRETON Paris
1949 Rare BLACK DANCE Co. Program Katherine DUNHAM Surrealist Andre BRETON Paris
1949 Rare BLACK DANCE Co. Program Katherine DUNHAM Surrealist Andre BRETON Paris
1949 Rare BLACK DANCE Co. Program Katherine DUNHAM Surrealist Andre BRETON Paris

1949 Rare BLACK DANCE Co. Program Katherine DUNHAM Surrealist Andre BRETON Paris

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  • Condition: VERY GOOD CONDITION: one light center vertical crease throughout probably from putting it into a coat pocket, light wear and age, and a former owners’ penned name and date at the top of an inner page, otherwise tight, bright and clean. An excellent copy of this rare 1949 program.
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    1949 Rare BLACK DANCE Company Program Katherine DUNHAM Surrealist Andre BRETON Paris
    Katherine DUNHAM, André BRETON, Paul COLIN
    Vintage Program of Legendary African American Dancer Katherine Dunham and her All-Black Dance Company’s performance at the Paris Theater, 1949.
    Introduction by French Surrealist André Breton, text by Georges Huisman, president of the Association française des Amis de la danse (French Friends of Dance Association). Photographs by Raymond Voinquel and Chadel.
    Cover illustration by French Artist Paul Colin, a black and white portrait of dancer Katherine Dunham.
    Théâtre de Paris, Katherine Dunham Ses Danseurs Ses Musicians, [1949] first (and only) edition. Illustrated softcovers, 10.5” x 8.25”, side staple bound, 24 un-numbered pages including covers, illustrated with b&w photographs, vintage advertisements, and a printed holographic statement by Katherine Dunham. Text in French. VERY GOOD CONDITION: one light center vertical crease throughout probably from putting it into a coat pocket, light wear and age, and a former owners’ penned name and date at the top of an inner page, otherwise tight, bright and clean. An excellent copy of this rare historic program.
    Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) Legendary Black Choreographer. Pioneer of Afro-Caribbean modern dance, Founder and Artistic Director of the first major all Black Dance Company. Her electric Haitian voodoo performances attracted a diverse community of Black artists, émigrés, expats, intellectuals, and surrealists to Harlem’s off-limits clubs and cafes. She received an anthropology degree from the University of Chicago, and strengthened Black social movements from the New Negro Movement to Black Power. She remains an important civil rights leader, activist, anthropologist, artist, author, scholar, icon of stage and screen, pioneer, hero, warrior, Voodoo priestess, legend, Queen Mother of Black Dance, and Spiritual Mother of Haiti.
    André Breton (1896-1966) writer and leader of the Surrealists.
    Paul Colin (1892-1985) one of France’s greatest poster artists. He created all of Dunham’s iconic dance posters.
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