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Article Excerpt
Each April we present the prestigious Dance Magazine Awards to outstanding members of the dance community for their contributions to the field. With this issue, we begin a four-part series, profiling each of the four extraordinary recipients in 2004. The first subject of this series is Anna Halprin.--THE EDITORS
SINCE ANNA HALPRIN left New York in 1955 and proclaimed herself independent of mainstream modern dance, she has been back to New York many times (see "Movement On The Mountain"). But on April 26, when Halprin steps to the podium to receive a Dance Magazine Award in New York, the occasion will mark a profound homecoming for the 83-year-old Californian. After nearly sixty years of living, working, and re-creating the rules of dance invention in the West, she still expresses surprise at being included among this year's honorees.
Halprin's isolation from the dominant trends and dance-makers of the modern dance world has given her the freedom to experiment. She has tested a wide range of possibilities for what might constitute a dance, and what spaces, public and private, might house that dance. In the process she has influenced two generations of dancers, choreographers, theater artists and musicians,...
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