Dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist Katherine Dunham is often celebrated for incorporating folk forms and themes from the Caribbean and West Africa into modern dance practice. Dunham studied anthropology at the University of Chicago and conducted field research in Jamaica, Martinique, Trinidad, and Haiti with a Rosenwald Fellowship. For more than 20 years (1940s-1960s), Dunham’s dance company toured in nearly 60 countries. A recently acquired group of papers includes correspondence with Dunham’s friend Dorothy Gray. Their letters reveal much about the business end of Dunham’s struggles to keep her company afloat and fed in the lean postwar years. This is part of our current, exhibition, Revisiting the Past-Imagining the Future, which is on view until July 9th! Check out this and more at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library!