Making Dances That Matter. Anna Halprin

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      Making Dances That Matter

      Making Dances That Matter

       RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY CREATIVITY

      ANNA HALPRIN

       with

      RACHEL KAPLAN

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

      Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2019 Anna Halprin

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      Title page image © Jay Graham Photographer. Anna Halprin Papers; courtesy of Museum of Performance and Design, San Francisco

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Halprin, Anna, author. | Kaplan, Rachel, 1963– author.

      Title: Making dances that matter: resources for community creativity / Anna Halprin with Rachel Kaplan.

      Description: Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018023905 (print) | LCCN 2018030717 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819575661 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819578440 (cloth: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780819575654 (paperback: alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Halprin, Anna—Criticism and interpretation. | Dance—Social aspects. | Postmodern dance—United States.

      Classification: LCC GV1785.H267 (ebook) | LCC GV1785.H267 H35 2018 (print) | DDC 792.8092 [B] —dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018023905

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      Cover illustration: Photograph of Planetary Dance on Mount Tamalpais by Brian Collentine.

      For my daughters,

      DARIA and RANA HALPRIN,

       for their continued support and participation

      CONTENTS

Introduction	1
1. The Life/Art Process: An Approach to Making Dances That Matter	8
Ordinary Movement	12
Awareness of Your Embodied Self	13
When Ordinary Movement Becomes Dance	15
The Power of Body Wisdom	18
The Psychokinetic Visualization Process and Healing Through Dance	19
The RSVP Cycles	25
2. A History of Circle the Earth and the Planetary Dance	31
3. Circle the Earth: Dancing with Life on the Line	49
Day 1. The Beginning of Community	53
The Name Game	57
Trails	59
The Vortex Dance	60
First Self-Portrait Drawing: Who Am I?	65
A Special Ceremony: Presentation of the Feathers	66
Unifying Dance for Closure	69
Day 2. Planetary Dance	71
The Four Directions	72
The Earth Run	73
Day 3. Identifying the Central Theme: Life and Death	74
Tuning Up and Vortex Variations	74
Rising and Falling	75
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