N.Z. TOUR CUT SHORT
Poor Audiences For Dancers Miss Katherine Dunham, the noted anthropologist and dancer, whose show, “Caribbean Rhapsody.” is appearing in Christchurch, said yesterday that her company would leave New Zealand at the end of its Christchurch season on Saturday, and would not appear in Dunedin and Invercargill next week as planned. She had hoped to make return visits to Wellington and Auckland after the South Island tour, but had decided against this because of lack of support. “I am exceedingly sorry we have to cut short our tour of New Zealand,” she said. Miss Dunham said she was disappointed at the small audiences at her shows in Christchurch, but was gratified by the intense enthusiasm of those who had attended. “Their welbome could not have been better,” she said. She attributed the poor reception her company had been given to a “deplorable resistance” among New Zealanders, not only to her show, but to anything new, unexplained and different.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28269, 6 May 1957, Page 6
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