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Anna Halprin (born Anna Schuman on 13 July 1920) helped pioneer the experimental art form known as postmodern dance and referred to herself as the breaker of modern dance.〔Ross, Janice. ''Anna Halprin.'' (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007.),xiii.〕 Halprin, along with her contemporaries such as Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, John Cage, and Robert Morris, collaborated and built a community based around the fundamentals of post-modern dance. In the 1950s, she established the San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop to give artists like her a place to practice their art. Being able to freely explore the capabilities of her own body, she created a systematic way of moving using kinesthetic awareness.〔Halprin, Anna. ''Moving Toward Life.'' (London: University of Press of New England, 1995.) pg. 31.〕 Many of her works since have been based on scores, including ''Planetary Dance'', 1987, and ''Myths'' in the 1960s which gave a score to the audience, making them performers as well. Halprin was diagnosed with rectal cancer in 1972. In order to understand her ailment, she documented her own experiences and compiled the information to make her own healing process called ''The Five Stages of Healing.''〔Halprin, Anna. ''Moving Toward Life.'' (London: University of Press of New England, 1995), 67.〕 In 1981, she applied ''The Five Stages of Healing'' to her community and developed large community pieces. Halprin stated "I believe if more of us could contact the natural world in a directly experiential way, this would alter the way we treat our environment, ourselves, and one another." 〔Halprin, Anna. "Artist Statement." Anna Halprin. She was the co-creator with her husband, the late landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, of the RSVP Cycles, a creative methodology that can be applied broadly across all disciplines. A documentary film about her life and art, ''Breath Made Visible'' directed by Ruedi Gerber, premiered in 2010. "Halprin continues to be sought after as a teacher because of her ability to lead dancers gently into new territory for their own choreographic invention." 〔(Dance Magazine: McFadden Performing Arts Media, 2004.) 78.〕 ==Early years== From a very early age Anna Halprin was exposed to dance due to her grandfather's involvement in religious dancing.〔Ross, Janice. Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance. (Berkeley, CA: University of California, 2009.), 6.〕 At 4 years old, Halprin's mother enrolled her in ballet class to satisfy young Anna's urge to dance. Quickly realizing that the structured environment was no place for a mind and soul as creative as Halprin's, her mother withdrew her from the class and put her into a class that was more focused on movement. At the age of 15, Anna Halprin began studying the techniques of Ruth St. Denis and Isadora Duncan. In 1938, she attended University of Wisconsin under the direction of one of her lifelong mentors Margaret H'Doubler. H’Doubler emphasized the importance of personal creativity and highly encouraged the study of anatomy in order obtain the most effective ways of moving.〔Halprin, Anna. ''Moving Toward Life.'' (London: University of Press of New England, 1995), 3.〕 Halprin abandoned the stylized forms of modern technique to create her own way of reproducing the art of everyday life.〔Halprin, Anna. ''Moving Toward Life.'' (London: University of Press of New England, 1995),3.〕 Merce Cunningham shared the same need to reject the emotional expressiveness of modern dance. However, instead of using chance as a way to make movement like Cunningham did, Halprin turned to improvisation to investigate ways in which individuals could make a community.〔Halprin, Anna. ''Moving Toward Life.'' (London: University of Press of New England, 1995), 3〕 Because of H'Doubler, Halprin understood the conception of where invention in dance begins, and from this she could help form the basis of the next generation's ideas of postmodern dance.〔Ross, Janice. Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance. (Berkeley, CA: University of California, 2009.), 48.〕 Her husband, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, whom she met in college, was also interested in the collaborative process. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anna Halprin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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