#KatherineDunham is a moment—underlines moment ✍️—And someone EVERYONE should know. A thread ... 🧵 1/14 📷: Katherine Dunham Villa I Tatti Florence, Italy 1949 - ThreadSky

dominiquerevue.bsky.social • 5 days ago

#KatherineDunham is a moment—underlines moment ✍️—And someone EVERYONE should know.

A thread ... 🧵
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📷: Katherine Dunham
Villa I Tatti
Florence, Italy
1949

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dominiquerevue.bsky.social•5 days ago

“Go within every day and find the inner strength, so that the world will not blow your candle out.”

—Katherine Dunham

📸: David Lees
Boboli Gardens in Florence, Italy

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dominiquerevue.bsky.social•5 days ago

"A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on."

—Katherine Dunham

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dominiquerevue.bsky.social•5 days ago

Katherine Dunham in A CARIBBEAN RHAPSODY at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London, dated June 1948.

Photographed by: George Konig

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dominiquerevue.bsky.social•5 days ago

Katherine Dunham and Orson Welles, at a costume party in Paris given by designer Gilbert Orcel, where guests dressed up "to look like the gods and goddesses of ancient Rome."

Orson, sourced as making "a quick trip through town," was quoted as calling the costumes "wonderful."

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dominiquerevue.bsky.social•5 days ago

Husband and wife, John Pratt and Katherine Dunham, toasting w Orson Welles at the party given by Gilbert Orcel, via the Katherine Dunham Photograph Collection.

(credit/source/publisher: Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale)

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dominiquerevue.bsky.social•5 days ago

Photos from this night were showcased in LIFE Magazine, 1949, titled LIFE GOES TO A CLASSICAL BALL, "Fashionable Parisians dress up to look like the gods and goddesses of ancient Rome at costume party," where "Orson Welles and dancer Katherine Dunham were among guests."

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