Making Dances That Matter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Dances That Matter write by Anna Halprin. This book was released on 2019-05-31. Making Dances That Matter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anna Halprin, vanguard postmodern dancer turned community artist and healer, has created ground-breaking dances with communities all over the world. Here, she presents her philosophy and experience, as well as step-by-step processes for bringing people together to create dances that foster individual and group well-being. At the heart of this book are accounts of two dances: the Planetary Dance, which continues to be performed throughout the world, and Circle the Earth. The Circle the Earth workshop for people living with AIDS has generated dozens of "scores" for others to adapt. In addition, the book provides a concrete guide to Halprin's celebrated Planetary Dance. Now more than 35 years old, Planetary Dance promotes peace among people and peace with the Earth. Open to everyone, it has been performed in more than 50 countries. In 1995 more than 400 participants joined her in a Planetary Dance in Berlin commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Potsdam Agreements, at the end of World War II. More recently, she took the Planetary Dance to Israel, bringing together Israelis and Palestinians as well as other nationalities. Throughout this book Halprin shows how dance can be a powerful tool for healing, learning and mobilizing change, and she offers insight and advice on facilitating groups. If we are to survive, Halprin argues, we must learn, experientially, how our individual stories weave together and strengthen the fabric of our collective body. Generously illustrated with photographs, charts and scores, this book will be a boon to dance therapists, educators and community artists of all types.
A Map of Making Dances
A Map of Making Dances - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Map of Making Dances write by Stuart Hodes. This book was released on 1998. A Map of Making Dances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This all-inclusive guide to the art of creating dance moves and routines, written by the advisor and former dancer of the Martha Graham School and company, contains 247 projects that guide the user through a myriad of topics. Concepts and techniques such as form, sequencing, variation, surrealism, abstract movement, improvisation, ritual and ceremony, space, and floor patterns are examined and explained, encouraging the student to experiment and create with movement.
Anna Halprin
Anna Halprin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anna Halprin write by Janice Ross. This book was released on 2009-05-06. Anna Halprin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 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 to the present.
Moving Toward Life
Moving Toward Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moving Toward Life write by Anna Halprin. This book was released on 2015-01-15. Moving Toward Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anna Halprin is one of the most important innovators in the history of modern dance, performance art, and post-modern dance. Moving Toward Life brings together for the first time her essays, interviews, manifestos, and teaching materials, along with over 100 illustrations, providing a rich account of the work that radicalized an entire generation of performers. Since the late 1950s, Halprin has been at the forefront of experiments in dance, from improvisation and street theatre to dances in the environment and healing dances. A brief overview of Halprin's career shows how her work has prefigured — and transfigured — crucial developments in postmodern dance. In the 1960s, Halprin invented the "workshop," and in the wake of the Watts riots, her multiracial company broke boundaries in their confrontational political performances. In the 1970s, she organized "community rituals" to explore how individual creativity feeds positively into group dynamics. These healing social events led to her current work with cancer survivors and people challenging AIDS and their caregivers. Depicting Halprin's deep commitment to social change, Moving Toward Life presents an engaging, critical document of the life of one of the most influential and least known luminaries of American dance. Sally Banes and Janice Ross join Rachel Kaplan in providing introductory essays to sections of the book.
Dance as a Healing Art
Dance as a Healing Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dance as a Healing Art write by Anna Halprin. This book was released on 2000. Dance as a Healing Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
