Primus, Pearl
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Name (Latin)
Primus, Pearl
Date of birth
1919-11-29
Date of death
1994-10-29
Place of birth
Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)
Place of death
New Rochelle (N.Y.)
Associated country
United States
Other associated place
Liberia
Field of activity
Biology Medicine Health education Psychology Anthropology African diaspora Dance Choreography Teaching African American dance
Associate group
Hunter College
New York University
New Dance Group (New York, N.Y.)
Five Colleges, Inc.
Performing Arts Center (Liberia)
Primus-Borde School of Primal Dance (New York City)
Occupation
Dancers Choreographers College teachers Anthropologists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
Biographical or Historical Data
Individual was a National Medal of Arts awardee.
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Cage, J. Our spring will come, c1977 (a.e.)t.p. (Pearl Primus)
- Glover, J. Pearl Primus, c1989:t.p. (Pearl Primus) p. ii (Dr. Pearl E. Primus) p. 158, etc. (born 1919, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; Hunter College, B.A. in biology and premedicine; NYU, health education; Hunter College, M.A., psychology; Columbia University, Ph.D., anthropology; prominent in African-American arts and dance)
- Dancing times, Dec. 1994:p. 273 (born Trinidad, 11/19/1919; died New Rochelle, NY, 10/29/1994)
- Dance Heritage Coalition WWW site, August 28, 2014:100 Dance Treasures (Pearl Primus; dancer, choreographer; came to NYC as a child; received a scholarship from the New Dance Group; made her dance debut at the 92nd Street YM-YWHA in 1943; studied African and African-American material and worked with Asadata Dafora; developed a repertory of dances emphasizing the African diasporic traditions; spent a year in Africa in 1948 with a Julius Rosenwald Fund grant; after returning to New York, opened the Pearl Primus School of Primal Dance; director of the African Performing Arts Center in Monrovia, Liberia in 1961; lectured and taught courses in anthropology and ethnic dance)
- African American National Biography, accessed March 10, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Primus, Pearl; choreographer, dancer, anthropologist, teacher; born 29 November 1919 in Trinidad; graduated from Hunter College of the City University of New York (1940); studied dance in the Caribbean (1953); earned MA in Education (1959) and PhD in Anthropology (1977) from New York University (NYU); received a fellowship from the Rosenwald Foundation to study in Africa (1948); was a director of Liberia's Performing Arts Center (1959-1961); opened the Primus-Borde School of Primal Dance in New York City and taught anthropology, sociology, and dance (1961); founded the Pearl Primus Dance Language Institute (1978); was professor of ethnic studies at the Five Colleges Inc. (1984-1990); received the National Medal of Arts (1991); died 29 October 1994 in New Rochelle, New York, United States)
- RA. LCN 2017