Katherine Dunham’s Ethnographic Research in the Caribbean | Folklife Today

Here’s a clip of Katherine Dunham’s SHANGO performed in Paris, France 1948. Notes on Shango from the Katherine Dunham collection at the Library of Congress: A staged translation of a Vodun ritual, Shango premiered on 27 September 1945 as the finale to act 1 of Carib Song, "a musical play of the West Indies" that opened at the Adelphi Theater, New York. The author of the play, William Archibald, included the following note in the show's playbill: "The lives of West Indian natives often find expre