Anna Halprin

Biography

In the mid-nineteen 40's in California, the choreographer Anna Halprin began to develop one of the most radical and fecund artistic adventures of the XXth century.

Using improvisation, "tasks" (an innovative concept which captures the gestures of daily life into the field of dance), collaboration with artists of numerous disciplines, work in nature, involvement in major political and social conflicts, work with nudity, on the relationships between communities and, later, illness and death, all her aesthetical approaches and her working processes laid the foundations of Performance, and opened a vast field of experimentations for American post-modern dance and numerous artists.