Moving Toward Life. Anna Halprin

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      MOVING TOWARD LIFE

      Frontispiece: Anna Halprin, The Prophetess, 1955. Costume designed by Lawrence Halprin and Martha Graham.

       Photo by Imogen Cunningham.

      MOVING TOWARD LIFE

      FIVE DECADES OF TRANSFORMATIONAL DANCE

       ANNA HALPRIN

      EDITED BY RACHEL KAPLAN

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown, Connecticut

      Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459

      www.wesleyan.edu/wespress © 1995 by Wesleyan University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 CIP data appear at the end of the book

      These essays may not be reprinted without the written permission of the author.

      Sections of this book have been published previously. All pieces copyrighted by Anna Halprin in the year of publication. Original publication dates and places of publication are as follows:

      “Three Decades of Transformational Dance” (interview with Nancy Stark Smith), Contact Quarterly, Winter 1990.

      “Movement Ritual I,” Movement Ritual I, Written by Anna Halprin, illustrated by Charlene Koonce. Tamalpa Institute, 1979.

      “Yvonne Rainer Interviews Ann Halprin,” Tulane Drama Review, vol. 10, no. 5, Winter 1965.

      “What and How I Believe,” Arts in Society, Spring/Summer 1968.

      “Mutual Creation,” Tulane Drama Review, vol. 13, no. I, Fall 1968.

      “Ceremony of Us,” Tulane Drama Review, vol. 13, no. 4, Summer 1969.

      “Instructions to Performers/Microcosm in Movement,” Tulane Drama Review, vol. 13, no. 4, Summer 1969.

      “Community Art as Life Process,” Tulane Drama Review, vol. 17, no. 3, Fall 1973.

      “Citydance 1977,” Citydance 1977, Dancers’ Workshop, 1978.

      “After Improv” (interview with Nancy Stark Smith), Contact Quarterly, Fall 1987.

      “Circle the Earth: Peace Dance, A Philosophy,” Contact Quarterly, Winter 1986.

      “Anna Halprin: A Life in Ritual” (interview with Richard Schechner), The Drama Review, vol. 33, no. 2, Summer 1989. Permission courtesy of the MIT Press.

      “The Planetary Dance,” The Drama Review, vol. 33, no. 2, Summer 1989. Permission courtesy of the MIT Press.

      “Life/Art Workshop Processes,” Taking Part, by Lawrence Halprin and James T. Burns, MIT Press, 1974.

      Moving Toward Life is a registered servicemark of Dancers’ Workshop/Tamalpa Institute.

      For more information regarding the Halprin Life/Art Process and related publications, contact: The Tamalpa Institute, Box 794, Kentfield, CA 94914 (phone: [phone]).

      Edited by Rachel Kaplan

      Designed by The Office of Michael Manwaring

      Set in Garamond Stempel and Univers 75

      Cover photo by Milton Halberstadt

      Facing page: A. A. Leath, Four-Legged Stool, 1962.

       Photo by Warner Jepson.

      THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO MY HUSBAND, LAWRENCE HALPRIN,

      TO HONOR MANY YEARS OF COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY

       CONTENTS

X	PREFACE
XIV	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
XVI	EDITOR’S NOTE

       THE HALPRIN LIFE/ART PROCESS: THEORY, HISTORY, AND PRACTICE

2	INTRODUCTION, Sally Banes
5	THREE DECADES OF TRANSFORMATIVE DANCE, INTERVIEW BY NANCY STARK SMITH (1989)
25	THE MARIN COUNTY DANCE CO OPERATIVES: TEACHING DANCE TO CHILDREN (1949-1957)
31	MOVEMENT RITUAL I (1975)
46	LIFE/ART WORKSHOP PROCESSES (1974)
65	MY EXPERIENCE OF CANCER (1993)

       THE WORK IN COMMUNITY

72	INTRODUCTION, Janice Ross
75	YVONNE RAINER INTERVIEWS ANN HALPRIN (1965)
101	WHAT AND HOW I BELIEVE: STORIES AND SCORES FROM THE ’60S (1968)
111	COMMUNITY ART AS LIFE PROCESS: THE STORY OF THE SAN FRANCISCO DANCERS’ WORKSHOP (1973)
130	MUTUAL CREATION (1968)
152	CEREMONY OF US, INTERVIEW BY ERIKA MUNK (1969)
161	INSTRUCTIONS TO PERFORMERS: CEREMONY OF US (1969)