# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pearl-primus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:43:41.901Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pearl-primus"
name: "Pearl Primus"
slug: "pearl-primus"
description: "Pearl Eileen Primus was an American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist. Primus played an important role in the presentation of African dance to American audiences. Early in her career she saw the need to promote African dance as an art form worthy of study and performance. Primus' work was a reaction to myths of savagery and the lack of knowledge about African people. It was an effort to guide the Western world to view African dance as an important and dignified statement about another way of life."
tagline: "American dancer and choreographer (1919-1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Pearl_Primus_LCCN2004663474.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1919-11-29"
deathDate: "1994-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.58
  momentum:             6
  historical:           7.685566666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/67673c98-23c8-45f5-8fbf-7286bb0f2e7a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Primus"
    title: "Pearl Primus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "پيارل پريموس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Primus"
    title: "Pearl Primus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Primus"
    title: "Pearl Primus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Primus"
    title: "Pearl Primus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Primus"
    title: "Pearl Primus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Primus"
    title: "Pearl Primus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%85%D8%B3"
    title: "پرل پرائمس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11698449"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump