Photograph:
Pearl Primus.
Photograph:
Pearl Primus.
Trinidadian Pearl Primus's dancing was one of the highlights of Caribbean Carnival. In this photograph, she appears in "African Ceremonial," a piece that she choreographed in 1943. Primus was one of the most accomplished presenters and teachers of African Diaspora dance in the U.S. during the 1940s and 1950s.
Courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.