Pearl primus dance language of the body

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Where was pearl primus born

Pearl Primus was a dancer, choreographer, educator, and anthropologist whose pioneering work not only explored and celebrated African, Caribbean, and African American dance forms and folkways, but also called attention to social issues faced by people of African descent. 

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1919, Primus migrated to New York with her family at the age of two.

She studied biology and Pre-Med or pre-med at Hunter College in New York, but was unable to find work because of the limited opportunities available to Black people. Primus began dancing in 1943, after finding work with the dance unit of the National Youth Administration (NYA).

She received a scholarship to study modern dance with the New Dance Group (NDG), a New York-based dance company dedicated to exploring social and economic issues through dance. According to Primus, the NDG was the place where “the dance claimed me.”

Primus was a student of Asodata Dafora, a Sierra Leonean