 Anna Halprin: Experience as dance.
Author: Ross, Janice Published: 2007 Anna Halprin pioneered what became known as 'post-modern dance', creating work that was key to unlocking the door to experimentation in theatre, music, happenings, and performance art. Among her students were Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, Meredith Monk, and Robert Morris. This first comprehensive biography explores Halprin's fascinating life in the context of American culture - in particular, popular culture and the West Coast as a centre of artistic experimentation. Janice Ross chronicles Halprin's long career, beginning with the dancer's grandparents - who escaped Eastern European pogroms and came to the United States at the turn of the 19th century - and ending with the present day, when Halprin continues to defy boundaries between artistic genres, as well as between participants and observers. |
