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

Halifu Osumare, Ph.D.

Certified

Halifu Osumare has been involved with dance and theatre as a practitioner and scholar internationally for over thirty years. She holds a M.A. in Dance Ethnology and a Ph.D. in American Studies. She is currently Associate Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis.

Her recent book is The Africanist Aesthetic in the Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves (2007). As a dancer, she was a soloist with the Rod Rodgers Dance Company, and was certified in the Dunham Technique by Miss Dunham in August 2001.

Her vision of the arts, like her late mentor Katherine Dunham, is their relevance to, and total involvement in, the humanities.

For more information:  www.halifuosumare.com

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