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Anita "Angna" Enters (April 18, 1897 – February 25, 1989) was an American dancer, mime, painter, writer, novelist and playwright. She studied at the Art Students League of New York and was a 1934 Guggenheim fellow .
Mar 1, 1989 · Angna Enters, a dancer and mime, painter and writer, died on Saturday at the County Manor Nursing Home in Tenafly, N.J. She was 82 years old.
Angna Enters: American Dance-Mime. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2021. Ginnine Cocuzza. Article. Metrics. Get access. Cite. Rights & Permissions. Extract. Anita Enters came to New York City from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, late in 1919 to begin study at the Art Students League.
Angna Enters. Abraham Walkowitz, Angna Enters, ca. 1936-1945, pen and ink, watercolor, and pencil on paper, sheet: 14 x 8 1 ⁄ 2 in. ( 35. 6 x 21. 6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist in memory of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1973.71.8. Zoom.
Angna Enters was a mime, dancer, author, painter, sculptor, dramatist, composer choreographer, and theatrical designer. She was the first American concert mime, and coined the term ``dance-mime'' now in dictionaries.
The U.S. dancer, mime artist, painter, writer, novelist, and playwright Angna Enters was an artist of unusual originality. After studying with Japanese mime artist Michio Ito in the 1920s, Enters developed her own form of “dance-mime.”
Angna Enters was a renowned dancer, who produced over 200 mime compositions. She was born in New York City, grew up in Milwaukee, and studied under Michio Itō in New York.
