Flashback: Pearl Primus, New York, 1943, Photograph by Lisette Model Pearl Primus was a Da
Flashback: Pearl Primus, New York, 1943, Photograph by Lisette Model Pearl Primus was a Dancer, Choreographer, Educator & Anthropologist born in Trinidad and raised in New York. She received her Phd in anthropology from NYU in 1978. A year later Primus and her husband dancer/choreographer Percival Borde founded ‘Pearl Primus Dance Language Institute’, where her method of blending African-American, Caribbean, and African influences with modern dance and ballet techniques was taught. Primus was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1991 and she was involved in the dance community until she passed away in October 1994. -- source link
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