Janice Ross Anna Halprin (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Anna HalprinCondition: NewEAN: 9780520260054ISBN: 9780520260054Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/06/2009Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 36mmItem Weight: 726gAuthor: Janice RossContributor: Richard Schechner (Foreword by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: Experience as DanceISBN-10: 0520260058Description: 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. Halprin's 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 Halprin's husband, the important landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, in the context of his wife's environmental dance work. Using Halprin's 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: BiographyTopic: Music Dance & TheatreRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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