Dance Legend Dunham Promotes Renaissance in Haiti

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Dance Legend Dunham Promotes Renaissance in Haiti

Reuters (12/29/94)
Mikkelson, Randall

After a three-year absence from her adopted country, American dance legend Katherine Dunham has returned to Haiti to promote what she anticipates as an environmental and cultural renaissance there. "The matriarch of black dance" returned to her estate in one of Haiti's few remaining rainforests, saying that she aims to further her life's work by making the estate into an example for living in a new Haiti. The gardens of her estate, which were designated a botanical garden by the preservation group Botanical Gardens Conservation International in 1993, will be opened to the public next year. Other plans include cottages for American AIDS patients, a small medical clinic, and a garden for the infant children of the town, Carrefour.

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