Katherine Dunham Dancing with Life

Not surprisingly Jørgen Leth became fascinated by Katherine Dunham 19092006 an AfricanAmerican anthropologist dancer and choreographer living in Haiti Dunham was politically engaged and a powerful personality Unfortunately at the time it proved impossible to raise the money to produce a film portrait This pilot has survived on a battered VHS cassette Footage from a dance seminar in East St Louis is complemented with interviews with Dunham and other black dancers The producer Terry Carter is working on having the planned Dunham film accomplished