Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance

Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance
University of California Press | February 12, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0520247574 | 462 pages | File type: PDF | 1.5 mb

Anna Halprin pioneered what became known as "postmodern dance," creating work that was key to unlocking the door to experimentation in theater, music, Happenings, and performance art. This first comprehensive biography examines Halprin's fascinating life in the context of American culturein particular popular culture and the West Coast as a center of artistic experimentation from the Beats through the Hippies. Janice Ross chronicles Halprin's long, remarkable career, beginning with the dancer's grandparentswho escaped Eastern European pogroms and came to the United States at the turn of the last centuryand ending with the present day, when Halprin continues to defy boundaries between artistic genres as well as between participants and observers. As she follows Halprin's development from youth into old age, Ross describes in engrossing detail the artist's roles as dancer, choreographer, performance theorist, community leader, cancer survivor, healer, wife, and mother.

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