KATHERINE DUNHAM
June 22, 1909 - May 21, 2006

"When you have faith in something, it's your reason to be alive and to fight for it."
-- Katherine Dunham
Andrea Smythe
Principal Dancer/Actor/Choreographer | Dunham Technique
PATC Certified

CHOREOGRAPHER - ANDREA SMYTHE is a professional dancer and instructor at the East St. Louis Performing Arts Center (formerly known as the Katherine Dunham Center for the Performing Arts), Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, East St. Louis Center.

She studied dance under Lucille Ellis, Katherine Dunham, Archie Savage, Alcine Wiltz, Norman Davis and Tommie Gomez. Andrea has performed with the Katherine Dunham Dance Company at Carnegie Hall (New York) and Keil Opera House (St. Louis) and was featured with the Cossane Dance Company in the opening of Disney World's Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida.

Andrea has a family of performers: her son Ashi Smythe was a featured dancer with the New York Broadway production of The Lion King and her daughter, Samoria is a former performer with the youth company at the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville - East St. Louis Performing Arts Center
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Katherine Dunham and student at Southern Illinois University, c1960s.