Certified Dunham
Technique Teachers

IDTC Members

Dunham Master Teachers
named by Katherine Dunham and Certified by IDTC

• Albirda Rose Eberhardt
  Master Teacher, Founder, Former Co-Director of IDTC
  Bonney Lake, Washington

• Rachel Tavernier
  Master Teacher, Co-Director of IDTC, Technique Committee Chair, Portfolio Committee Member, Pedagogy Committee Member, Planning Committee Member
  Moreland, Georgia

Co-Directors and Former Co-Directors

• Jan Blunt

  Certified Teacher, Co-Director of IDTC, Co-Treasurer, Portfolio Committee Member, Pedagogy Committee member, Youth Track Committee Member
  Los Angeles, CA

• Patricia Wilson
  Certified Teacher, Co-Director of IDTC, Technique Committee Member, Portfolio Committee Member, Pedagogy Committee Member, Planning Committee Member
  Brattleboro, Vermont

• Penny Godboldo
  Certified Teacher, Former Co-Director of IDTC, Technique Committee Member
  Detroit, Michigan

• Halifu Osumare
  Certified Teacher, Former Co-Director of IDTC
  Sacramento, California

IDTC BOARD Members

• Leslie Arbogast
  Certified Teacher, Planning Committee Co-Chair, History/Theory Committee Member, Marketing Committee Member, Portfolio Committee Member
  San Diego, California

• Celia Benvenutti

  Certified Teacher, Planning Committee Co-Chair, Technique Committee Member, Marketing Committee Member
  Detroit, Michigan

• Saroya Corbett
  Certified Teacher, History/Theory Committee Chair, Co-Treasurer, Portfolio Committee Member
  Albany, New York

• Cyndal Ellis
  Certified Teacher, Secretary, Youth Track Committee Member, Marketing Committee Member
  Brattleboro, Vermont

• Diane Evenou
  Certified Teacher, Assistant Secretary, Marketing Committee Member, Technique Committee Member, Planning Committee Member
  Montreal, Canada

• Sukie Keita
  Certified Teacher, Portfolio Committee Chair, Marketing Committee Member, Pedagogy Committee Member, Youth Track Member
  Phoenix, Arizona

• Mary Ann Laverty
  Certified Teacher, Fundraising and Development Committee Chair, Educator Track Committee Member
  Newport News, Virginia

• Nicole Manker
  Certified Teacher, Marketing Committee Chair
  Sacramento, California

• Sheila Ward
  Certified Teacher, Pedagogy Committee Chair, Fundraising and Development Committee Member
  Richmond, Virginia

Members

• Jamila Ajanaku
  Certified Teacher, Youth Track Committee Member
  St. Louis, Missouri

• Heather Himes Beal
  Certified Teacher, Fundraising and Development Committee, Technique Committee Member
  St Louis, Missouri

• Bernard Brown
  Certified Teacher
  Los Angeles, California

• Molly Christie
  Certified Teacher
  Western Massachusetts

• Sabrina Cmelak
  Certified Teacher
  Rochester, New York

• Alexandria Davis
  Certified Teacher, Marketing Committee Member
  East Lansing, Michigan

• Marcea Daiter
  Certified Teacher
  New York, New York

• Joanna Dee Das
  Certified Teacher, History/Theory Committee Member
  St. Louis, Missouri

• Amansu Eason
  Certified Teacher
  Gary, Indiana & Chicago, Illinois

• Sabrina Fairfort
  Certified Teacher
  Paris, France

• Anindo S. Marshall
  Certified Teacher
  Los Angeles, California

• Dominic Mitchell
  Certified Teacher
  London, UK

• Eyla Moore
  Certified Teacher
  Oakland, California

• Mariella Morales
  Certified Teacher
  San Francisco, California

• Myrtha Muse
  Certified Teacher
  Oakland, California

• Nycole Ray
  Certified Teacher
  Dallas, Texas

• Jeanne Speier
  Certified Teacher
  Cincinnati, Ohio

• Alicia Thompson
  Certified Teacher, Web Master
  Huntsville, Alabama

• Geraldine Williams
  Certified Teacher
  Chicago, Illinois

• Keith Tyrone Williams
  Certified Teacher
  St Louis, Missouri

Certified Dunham Scholar
(Certified by IDTC)

• Catherine Scott
  Los Angeles, California

IDTC MEMBERS In Memoriam

• Ronnie “Yao” Marshall
  Certified Teacher
  June 17, 1948-September 20, 1998

• Alicia Pierce
  Certified Teacher
  April 11, 1951-December 24, 2008

• Theodore Jamison
  Master Teacher
  February 24, 1953- November 28, 2019

• Patrick Parsons
  Certified Teacher
  October 26, 1958-November 20, 2024

Dunham Master Teachers

IDTC defines Dunham Master Teachers in two ways:

1) those teachers who were long-term members of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company on whose bodies the technique was built, and who attended the annual Dunham Seminar in East St. Louis to help her develop the technique into the 1990s;

2) those teachers on whom Miss Dunham directly bestowed “Master Teacher” status through her many interactions with dancers engaging with the Dunham Technique and choreography.

• April Berry

• Emilio Lastarria

• Eusebio Lobo da Silva

• Albirda Rose

• Glory Van Scott

• Ruby Streate

• Rachel Tavernier

• Jackie Thompson

In Memoriam

• Vanoye Aikens

• Talley Beatty

• Julie Robinson Belafonte

• Darryl Braddix

• Frances Taylor Davis

• Lucille Ellis

• Clifford Fears

• Doris Bennett Glasper

• Tommy Gomez

• Theodore Jamison

• Walter Nicks

• Pearl Reynolds

• Othella Dallas Strozier

• Ned Williams Jr.

• Lavinia Williams Yarborough