Practitioners

Halprin, Anna

Practitioner

Anna Halprin’s radical approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art has been a seminal influence on the development of contemporary performance practice, from her work with the San Francisco Dancers’ workshop until the present.


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Part 1 of the 80th Year Retrospective. Includes the ‘Undressing and Dressing’ and ‘Paper Dance’ from the ground-breaking interdisciplinary performance Parades and Changes.
00:39:28
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Part 2 of 80th Year Retrospective. Memories From My Closet consists of four solo autobiographical Dance Stories created between 1995 and 2000 reflecting different aspects of Halprin’s dancing life.
00:28:07
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Part 3 of 80th Year Retrospective. The performance concludes with the world premiere of Intensive Care.
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The substance of rehearsal time is mainly contingent on the requirements made of actors: to learn lines; to enter into roles; to establish movements and interactions; to create the ‘world of a play’.

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00:35:49
Anna Halprin Thumbnail
Part 1 of the 80th Year Retrospective. Includes the ‘Undressing and Dressing’ and ‘Paper Dance’ from the ground-breaking interdisciplinary performance Parades and Changes.
00:39:28
Anna Halprin Thumbnail
Part 2 of 80th Year Retrospective. Memories From My Closet consists of four solo autobiographical Dance Stories created between 1995 and 2000 reflecting different aspects of Halprin’s dancing life.
00:28:07
Anna Halprin Thumbnail
Part 3 of 80th Year Retrospective. The performance concludes with the world premiere of Intensive Care.