Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham born in 1909 whom is considered Mother of Modern Black Dance greatly admired Haiti, and after graduation from the University of Chicago left for Haiti to study ethnographic study of the dance forms of the Caribbean in 1936. She bought a home in Haiti called Habitation Leclerc, a place where Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon Bonaparte’s wife stayed at before the slaves revolted. She spoke very fondly of her years and studies in Haiti, and was greatly influenced by the country. Years later, Dunham went as far as protesting the treatme