Anna Halprin at the University of San Francisco, November 2010
Born
Hannah Dorothy Schuman
(1920-07-13)July 13, 1920[1]
Winnetka, Illinois, U.S.
Died
May 24, 2021(2021-05-24) (aged 100)[2]
Kentfield, Marin County, California, U.S.[3]
Occupation
Dancer
Spouse
Lawrence Halprin
(m. 1940)
Children
2, including Daria Halprin
Relatives
Ruthanna Hopper (granddaughter), Dennis Hopper (former-son-in-law)
Career
Current group
Tamalpa Institute
Dances
Postmodern dance
Website
annahalprin.org
Anna Halprin (born Hannah Dorothy Schuman; July 13, 1920 – May 24, 2021)[3] was an American choreographer and dancer. She helped redefine dance in postwar America and pioneer the experimental art form known as postmodern dance and referred to herself as a breaker of the rules of modern dance.[4] In the 1950s, she established the San Francisco Dancers' Workshop to give artists like her a place to practice their art. Exploring the capabilities of her own body, she created a systematic way of moving using kinesthetic awareness.[5] With her husband, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, she developed the RSVP cycles, a creative methodology that includes the idea of scores and can be applied broadly across all disciplines. Many of her creations have been scores, including Myths in the 1960s which gave a score to the audience, making them performers as well, and a highly participatory Planetary Dance (1987). Influenced by her own battle with cancer and her healing journey, Halprin became known for her work with the terminally ill patients as well as creative movement work in nature.
In 1978, together with her daughter Daria Halprin, she founded the Tamalpa Institute, based in Marin County, California, which offers training in Life/Art process, their creative methodology. Halprin has written books including: Movement Rituals, Moving Toward Life: Five Decades of Transformational Dance and Dance as a Healing Art. A documentary film about her life and art, Breath Made Visible directed by Ruedi Gerber, premiered in 2010.
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^ abAnderson, Jack (2021-05-26). "Anna Halprin Dies at 100; Choreographer Committed to Experimenting". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
AnnaHalprin (born Hannah Dorothy Schuman; July 13, 1920 – May 24, 2021) was an American choreographer and dancer. She helped redefine dance in postwar...
daughter of San Francisco-based landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and choreographer AnnaHalprin (née Schuman), who, in the 1950s, was one of the Western...
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influenced many notable dancers and artists. Forti first apprenticed with AnnaHalprin in the 1950s and has since worked alongside artists and composers Nam...
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Winnetka Ari Emanuel, talent agent and founder of the Endeavor Agency AnnaHalprin (Ann Schuman) (1938), modern dancer Sharon Percy Rockefeller, former...
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soon relocated to San Francisco to study modern dance with AnnaHalprin at a workshop Halprin had started with several other dancers, as well as the artists...
avant-garde artists who influenced the postmodernists include John Cage, AnnaHalprin, Simone Forti, and other choreographers of the 1950s, as well as non-dance...
1959-60 – Rainer met Simone Forti and Nancy Meehan, who had worked with AnnaHalprin and Welland Lathrop in San Francisco. In mid-1960, the three rented a...
(2001) Bruce Nauman (2001) Alice Coltrane (2002) Roy E. Disney (2003) AnnaHalprin (2003) Carolee Schneemann (2003) Christian Wolff (2004) Daniel Nagrin...
improvisation, including Trisha Brown, Grand Union, Daniel Nagrin's Workgroup, AnnaHalprin 's San Francisco Dancers' Workshop, Julian Beck and Judith Malina's Living...
in an experimental workshop devoted to improvisation at the studio of AnnaHalprin, in Kentfield, California. Subsequently, at the urging of fellow choreographers...
Pauline Oliveros; contemporary artist Hung Liu; postmodern dance pioneer AnnaHalprin; award-winning scholar, filmmaker and activist Susan Stryker; book artist...
the psychedelic Trips Festival in 1966; worked for the modern dancer AnnaHalprin, accompanying her on a European tour as her manager; and with Ernest...
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