Anna Halprin: experience as dance
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
- ISBN13 9780520247574
- ISBN10 0520247574
- Type Book
- Pages 445
- Published 2007
- Bookbinding Cloth
Sections
Performance ArtAnna Halprin: experience as dance
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
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 culture - in 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 grandparents - who escaped Eastern European pogroms and came to the United States at the turn of the last century - and 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.