Anna Halprin Essay

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Page 1 Anna Halprin: Breath Made Visible The title of the film is Breath Made Visible and the main artists featured where Anna Halpin, Merce Cunningham, John Graham, and A.A. Leath. In the movie, all these artists where at some point team mates and danced together. Although the group ended up separating, their bond and love for each other still remains. I think it was awesome that after all those years they are still friends and keep in touch, that also shows they have a good relationship. The artists were very close and they all loved to dance together and learned from each other. When they separated most of them created their own dance school, some of them became very popular and are still running today. A popular one would be Anna’s school at her house in California on her deck. Another school I think was interesting and important to the dance culture was the multi racial school she made. Which was the first multi racial in the U.S. and it was during a time when the United States still had racism. Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey were Anna’s mentors and role models in her Life, her biggest mentor and supporter was her husband Lawrence. He supported her in every way and he was the one who build her the famous deck at her house. Others artist mentioned and shown in the movie were Morton Subotnick, Luciano Berio, her two daughters Daria Halprin and Rana Halprin. Page 2 I think that Anna’s salient features in this movie were spiritual and natural movement. She believed that “everything is movement and dance” and that dance is what you see, hear, and smell. It’s how you bring your conations and awareness to your experience so if you bring your conations to a tree and then you bring that conations into your body then that becomes a dance experience

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