Anna Halprin

Dancing outside on the deck. Anna Halprin - city to Mount Tamalpais.

My own experience living in New Zealand with the forest and beach bring you in touch with nature and exhilarate or calm.
Anna Halprin based on Martha Graham’s technique connected her body with her changing surroundings and encouraged her dancers to observe and bring back the lived experience into the lived body to embody.
Experimenting and exploring isolating parts of the body to discover alternative ways of moving opened opportunity for new work and inspired many to connect Art forms to dance.  Line of a paint brush stroke, soft refined pencil drawing, watercolours or oils.  The News of the day metaphorically interpreted through the body.  To replicate the movement of an animal with the body and draw it out or narrate it with thoughts sycronized or not.

Transformational dance.

Now looking into Bauhaus - pre-war.




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  1. BealesOnBallet27 March 2018 at 23:25

    your post reminds me of the preface in "Researching Dance, Evolving Modes of Inquiry edited by Sondra Horton Fraleigh and Penelope Hanstein"

    "In both phenomenology and feminism, the personal is political. Problems of intentionality enter into discussions of dance and the body, since dance flows from human agency. We choose to dance: thus, dance embodies our freedom and exercise of intention. Because dance is of the body, it also involves the body's relationship to nature. Questions are posed concerning the reciprocity of nature and culture in dance." thank you :)

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