Katherine Dunham program 1946 Tropical Revue Bal Negre dancers

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In good, used condition. There is a horizontal fold across all pages. The title block on page 3 is pasted on over something else.
I think this program is from the pre-Broadway tour.
20 pages
33 photographic images
Photos of the cast are identified by name - Eartha Kitt is there
From wikipedia:
Katherine Mary Dunham
(
June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an African-American
dancer
,
choreographer
, author, educator, anthropologist, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in African-American and European theater of the 20th century, and directed her own dance company for many years. She has been called the "matriarch and queen mother of black dance."
[
In 1946 Katherine Dunham developed
Bal Nègre
for her company of dancers, singers, and musicians. During a nine-month tour of the United States, the program was tweaked and then opened on Broadway In November 1946. It closed on December 22, 1946, after only 54 performances..
Eartha Kitt was one of the Sans-Souci Singers.
"Katherine Dunham is the best dancer in America today..She also has dramatic talents far in excess of any dancer on the American stage today..As a choreographer, Dunham is close to the top. She moves her youngsters around the Belasco stage with such speed and physical precision that it often seems as though there are twice as many folks up there as there are...If things were run properly in this town, every quote American unquote ballet company would be forced to go up to [the] Dunham school for biweekly lessons" - critic Robert Sylvester (
Daily News
, 8 November 1946).