Anna Halprin

List of contents

List of figures
Acknowledgements
1 LIFE AND WORK
2 THEORY AND PRACTICE
3 THE MOUNTAIN PERFORMANCES, CIRCLE THE EARTH AND THE PLANETARY DANCE
4 PRACTICAL EXPLORATIONS
Bibliography
Contacts
Index

About the author

Helen Poynor is an independent movement artist specializing in environmental, site-specific and autobiographical performance and cross art-from collaborations. She runs the Walk of Life Workshop and Training Programme. She is Visiting Professor of Performance at Coventry University, UK and a Registered Dance Movement Therapist. Libby Worth is a movement practitioner focusing on collaborative art processes, performer training, and responsive performance. She is a Reader in Contemporary Performance Practices at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Both authors trained with Anna Halprin in the early 1980s.

Summary

The revised and reissued Anna Halprin traces the life's work of this radical dance-maker, documenting her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s through to the development of her groundbreaking approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art form.

Product details

• Authors: Libby (Royal Holloway Worth, Worth Libby, Libby Worth, Helen Poynor, Poynor Helen
• Assisted by: Franc Chamberlain (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.06.2018
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
• EAN: 9780815364092
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-6409-2
• Pages: 206
• Series: Routledge Performance Practitioners; Routledge Performance Practitioners
• Subjects: Dance, PERFORMING ARTS / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Modern, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism, Calton Hill, Theatre Studies, Performance Art, Sea Ranch, Common Language, Judson Dance Theater, Mount Tamalpais, Aid Virus, Ankoku Butoh, community arts engagement, avant-garde performance studies, Feed Back Process, modern dance history, interdisciplinary choreography, dance therapy research, participatory dance healing methods, somatic movement practice, Collective Creative Process, American Dance Festival, Grandfather Dance, Mountain Performances, Movement Ritual, Dance Deck, Halprin’s Dance, Living Myths, Pomo Indians, Halprin’s Approach, Chief Seattle Speech, Paper Dance