2 Video: On the Red Carpet at the 2026 Chita Rivera Awards 3 Photos: Stars Walk the Red Carpet at the 2026 Chita Rivera Awards Pearl Primus (also known as Omowale) was a pioneer of modern dance, dance ...

We all have the primal need to feel connected -- to one another, to the Earth, to the ineffable joys and sorrows of existence. The late modern dance pioneer-anthropologist Pearl Primus understood this ...

Open any major book of twentieth-century American dance history and you will encounter the name Pearl Primus and, most likely, an exuberant image of a powerful, leaping body. The recipient of the ...

Asked why she devoted herself and her company to creating not just one but two tributes to dance anthropologist Pearl Primus -- a seminal chronicler of rites and injustices, about whom we don't hear ...

Seven years ago, a squat, powerful Negro girl named Pearl Primus, who had just graduated in biology from Manhattan’s Hunter College, was ringing doorbells in search of a laboratory job. She did not ...

The artists of the Brooklyn-based dance ensemble Urban Bush Women envision themselves as more than dancers. “To be an Urban Bush Woman is to have a set of values,” says founder-artistic director ...

How many Broadway shows has Pearl Primus been in? Pearl Primus has appeared on Broadway in 2 shows. How many West End shows has Pearl Primus been in? Pearl Primus has not appeared in the West End.

Charlene Scott of member station WFCR previews the new work of dance inspired by the late choreographer Pearl Primus. The artist learned the Bushache ceremony from the Bantu people of the former ...

A black and white photograph of Pearl Primus by Arthur Leipzig. Primus is in the center of the image with her upper body and head visible. Primus is facing slightly to the left with her eyes downcast.