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: 415-461-9479).
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