Women in Music Posters “Pr...-”
for social studies and music education classrooms, home schoolers, and inspirational decor.

Leontyne Price
b. 2-10-1927; Laurel, Mississippi

Soprano Leontyne Price is especially known for her role in Verdi's Aida. She also sang the part of Bess in George Gershwin's opera Porgy & Bess.

Pearl Primus
b. 11-29-1919; Trinidad and Tobago
d. 10-29-1994

Pearl Primus, a dancer, choreographer and anthropologist, played an important role in the presentation of African dance to American audiences.

Pearl Primus, who was trained in classical and preclassical dance by the master teacher Louis Horst and studied with such great dance pioneers as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Hanya Holm and Charles Weidman, also received a Ph.D. degree in anthropolgy from New York University.

In July 1991 she was awarded the national Medal of Arts by President Bush, the highest honor given by the National Endowment for the Arts.

• more Black History posters
• Dancing in the Light: Six Dance Compositions By African American Choreographers / Asadata Dafora, Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Talley Beatty, Donald McKayle, Bill T. Jones, DVD

Juliet Prowse
b. 9-25-1936; Bombay, India; raised in South Africa
d. 9-14-1996; Los Angeles (pancreatic cancer)

Dancer Juliet Prowse had a forty year career on stage, television and film. The world's attention was turned on her when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev called her dancing “immoral” when he visited the sound stage for the filming of the 1960 movie musical “Can-Can”.

Other notable events in her life include a brief engagement of Frank Sinatra, an affair with Elvis Presley, the first guest on The Muppet Show, studied Bikram Yoga, was twice mauled by the same leopard, and showed off her famous long legs in L'eggs panty hose commercials.