Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance by Janice Ross (English) Paperback Book

Description: Anna Halprin by Janice Ross, Richard Schechner 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 biography examines Halprins life in the context of American culture - in particular popular culture and the West Coast as a center of artistic experimentation. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Halprins 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 Halprins long, remarkable career, beginning with the dancers 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 Halprins development from youth into old age, Ross describes in engrossing detail the artists roles as dancer, choreographer, performance theorist, community leader, cancer survivor, healer, wife, and mother.Halprins friends and acquaintances include a number of artists who charted the course of postmodern performance. Among her students were Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, Meredith Monk, and Robert Morris. Ross brings to life the vital sense of experimentation during this period. She also illuminates the work of Anna Halprins husband, the important landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, in the context of his wifes environmental dance work. Using Halprins dance practices and works as her focus, Ross explores the effects of danced stories on the bodies who perform them. The result is an innovative consideration of how experience becomes performance as well as a masterful account of an extraordinary life. Flap "When I learned about improvisation from Anna, it was like receiving the other half of the hemisphere. Without improvisation I would not have developed the work that Im doing."--Trisha Brown "Anna Halprin--who, with her husband, the architect Lawrence Halprin, is considered to be the wellspring of what we call postmodern dance--has spent most of her long life shattering rules, conventions, expectations, and long-cherished ideals like so many porcelain teacups. . . . In this new cultural history and intellectual biography, Janice Ross has unscrolled a story--with her subjects full collaboration--that continuously reveals and surprises. It is a groundbreaking achievement in dance scholarship, commensurate with the work of Sally Banes, the scholar of postmodern dance to whom this book is affectionately dedicated."--Mindy Aloff, author of Dance Anecdotes "This book is an eye-opener. It is fascinating to learn about the different creative periods in Anna Halprins life, from her involvement with Jewish identity and culture, dance education, and Bauhaus emigr Author Biography Janice Ross is Associate Professor of Drama at Stanford University and the author of Moving Lessons: Margaret HDoubler and the Beginning of Dance in American Education. Richard Schechner is University Professor and one of the founders of the Performance Studies Department at New York University. Table of Contents Foreword by Richard Schechner Introduction 1. Why She Danced (1920--1938) 2. The Secret Garden of American Dance (1938--1942) 3. The Bauhaus and the Settlement House (1941--1945) 4. Western Spaces (1945--1955) 5. Instantaneous Experience and Beat Culture (1955--1960) 6. Urban Rituals (1961--1966) 7. Spectatorship and Embodiment (1967--1968) 8. Ceremony of Memory (1968--1971) 9. Illness as Performance (1972--1990) 10. Flesh Made Metaphor: Dances of Aging (1991--2005) Chronology of Works, Videos, and Films by Anna Halprin Notes Bibliography Index Review "Beautifully researched. . . with a tone of persuasive poise, Ross builds a strong case for Anna Halprin as one of the most potent if underrecognized catalysts in dance since the 50s."-Dance Magazine Details ISBN0520260058 Author Richard Schechner Short Title ANNA HALPRIN Publisher University of California Press Language English ISBN-10 0520260058 ISBN-13 9780520260054 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2009 Imprint University of California Press Subtitle Experience as Dance Country of Publication United States Place of Publication Berkerley Residence US Illustrations 60 b-w photographs UK Release Date 2009-05-06 NZ Release Date 2009-05-06 US Release Date 2009-05-06 Pages 464 Publication Date 2009-05-06 DEWEY 792.8092 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2009-05-05 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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