The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus by Peggy Schwartz,Murray Schwartz

By Peggy Schwartz,Murray Schwartz

Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with beautiful works that integrated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. within the Dance Claimed Me, Peggy and Murray Schwartz, pals and associates of Primus, provide an intimate viewpoint on her lifestyles and discover her impacts on American tradition, dance, and schooling. They hint Primus's course from her formative years in Port of Spain, Trinidad, via her upward thrust as an influential overseas dancer, an early member of the recent Dance crew (whose motto was once "Dance is a weapon"), and a pioneer in dance anthropology.Primus traveled generally within the usa, Europe, Israel, the Caribbean, and Africa, and he or she performed a major position in offering genuine African dance to American audiences. She engendered controversy in either her inner most lives, marrying a white Jewish guy in the course of a time of segregation and demanding black intellectuals who adversarial the "primitive" in her choreography. Her political protests and mixed-race excursions within the South prompted an FBI research, while she used to be celebrated via dance critics and via contemporaries like Langston Hughes.For The Dance Claimed Me, the Schwartzes interviewed greater than 100 of Primus's relations, neighbors, and&fellow artists, in addition to different members to create a bright portrayal of a existence packed with ardour, drama, decision, fearlessness, and brilliance.

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