Name: Katherine Dunham Style Dance Performance
Start: 2025-03-27T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-27T19:30:00-05:00
Location: SIUE Visitor Parking (Lot B)

You’ll be enchanted by a special Katherine Dunham Style Dance performance beneath the soaring Fuller Dome.
About this Event

Katherine Dunham was a world-renowned dancer and dance ethnologist. She combined modern dance of the 1940s with traditional Afro-Caribbean dance styles to create a technique that would support her innovative choreography. Later in life, while living in East St. Louis, Dunham was a professor at SIUE and reached out to her fellow SIU colleague Buckminster Fuller to envision a new urban plan for her beloved East St. Louis. The one-mile-wide domed city of the Old Man River’s City project was Bucky’s answer to Dunham’s request.