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A dancer, choreographer, and proselytizer for African dance, Pearl Primus (1919-1994) trained at the New Dance Group and worked with Asadata Dafora. She began a life-long study of African and African-American material in the 1940s, and developed a repertory of dances emphasizing the rich variety of African diasporic traditions.
Mar 6, 2024 · Pearl Eileen Primus (1919–1994) was an ambassador of African dance and the African experience in the Caribbean and United States. Her Trinidadian heritage, combined with extensive studies in the Caribbean, Africa, and the American South, became the lens through which she taught and choreographed.
Oct 31, 1994 · Pearl Primus, a pioneering dancer, choreographer and teacher whose anthropological work exposed Americans to the realities of black life in America and to the richness of African and Caribbean...
Jun 23, 2021 · June 23, 2021. Born in Trinidad in 1919 and raised in New York City from a young age, Pearl Primus did not come to formal dance training until 1941, after earning an undergraduate degree in biology. She studied with New Dance Group, with which she made her professional performance debut in 1943.
Pronunciation: PREE-mus. Born Pearl Primus on November 29, 1919, in Trinidad, British West Indies; died at her home in New Rochelle, New York, on October 29, 1994; daughter of Edward Primus and Emily Primus; Hunter College, B.A., 1940; received a Rosenwald Foundation grant for travel to Africa, 1948; New York University, Ph.D. in Educational Soc...
Pearl Eileen Primus (November 29, 1919 – October 29, 1994) was an American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist. Primus played an important role in the presentation of African dance to American audiences. Early in her career she saw the need to promote African dance as an art form worthy of study and performance.
Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. InThe D...
