Angna Enters
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Enters at the New House Gallery, 1940, New York City
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| Born |
Anita Engers April 18, 1907 New York City, United States |
| Died | February 25, 1989 (aged 81) Tenafly, New Jersey, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Art Students League of New York |
| Known for | Dance, mime, painting, writer |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
Anita "Angna" Enters (April 18, 1907, New York City – February 25, 1989, Tenafly, New Jersey) was a dancer, mime, painter, writer, novelist and playwright.
Enters graduated from North Division High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1915. She saw the first Denishawn concert tour the same year, and the following year, the first American tour of Sergei Diaghilev's Les Ballets Russes. In June 1916, Enters enrolled in Milwaukee State Normal School, a normal school for teachers, design and drawing (now the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee).
Enters moved to New York to study at the Art Students League of New York in 1919, and began to study dance with Michio Itō the following year, eventually performing as Michio's partner in 1923. That year she created her first piece, an evocation of a statue of a Gothic Virgin, entitled Ecclesiastique. The piece later became Moyen Age. In 1924, she borrowed $25 with which to present her first solo program at the Greenwich Village Theater. Her solo program,"The Theatre of Angna Enters," toured the United States and Europe until 1939 and was performed, though less often, until 1960. In 1934, Enters was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Hellenistic art forms in Athens, Greece.
Enters created a large body of visual art, including sketches, landscape drawings, archeological studies, costume plates, water colors and oil portraits. Many of her sketches and paintings were exhibited in the United States and Europe. Her sketches were often costume designs for characters of her mime performances or set designs for plays. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York holds selected works by Enters, as do other museums.
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