Award-winning choreographer, dancer, and writer Rachel Kaplan tours and teaches her performance work both here and abroad, and is a contributor to such dance-art journals as Contact Quarterly and High Performance Magazine.
"Anna Halprin is one of the most important and original thinkers
working in performance, as she has been since before the 1960s. Her
impact on dance, theatre, and ritual is immense, positive, and
life-giving. The only thing better than reading Halprin is working
with her."--Richard Schechner
"Here, all in one place, are documents of the theory and practice
that have made Anna Halprin a magnet for generations of
experimental dancers. Working in a field obsessed with surfaces,
she plumbs the motive for movement, seeking and finding ways to
heal the world."--Elizabeth Zimmer, Dance Editor, Village Voice
"I could not have believed, before studying the materials gathered
here, that a judicious selection of writings and key interviews
could so efficiently gather up more than forty years of the work of
Anna Halprin, and make it present in such a fully dimensional and
freestanding fashion. After all, among the issues addressed are
dance, improvisation, exploration, 'scoring', performance, myth,
ritual, community and art as life processes, and stages of healing
in cancer and AIDS (the connections traced between all these are
both dense and convincing)And the very best thing about this book
is that the ideas are presented in such a way that the reader can
immediately begin to move them into life and practice."--Robert
Ellis Dunn
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