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Born New York CityThe multi-talented Angna Enters earned distinction as a painter, sculptor, and writer. She won her greatest acclaim, however, as a dancer-mime. Following her New York stage debut in 1923, she went on to found her own dance company and to perform in more than 150 compositions of her own devising. Once seen, a critic declared in 1926, Enters was “never to be forgotten.” At the heart of her talent, wrote another observer, lay a power to make “the most trivial and ordinary events and characters significant.”Artist John Sloan first encountered Enters as a pupil in one of his classes at New York’sArt Students League. In his portrait of her, the expressiveness of the posture and arms were clearly intended to evoke his subject’s gift for mime. The black dress that Enters wears was typical of her somber offstage garb. She reserved bright colors, she said, for her performances.Nacida en la ciudad de New YorkArtista de múltiples talentos, Angna Enters se distinguió como pintora, escultora y escritora. Sin embargo, fue en el baile y la pantomima que obtuvo sus mayores éxitos. Después de debutar en New York en 1923, fundó su propia compañía de baile, con la que interpretó más de 150 coreografías creadas por ella. Quien la veía actuar “nunca podía olvidarla”, afirmó un crítico en 1926. Su talento esencial, escribió otro observador, era el poder de dar “significado a los sucesos y personajes más comunes y triviales”.El artista John Sloan conoció a Enters cuando ella tomó...

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