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The lives they lived: new biographies of Halprin, Farber, and Kirstein.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-OCT-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The lives they lived: new biographies of Halprin, Farber, and Kirstein.(dm recommends)(The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein, The Prickly Rose: A Biography of Viola Farber, and Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance)(Book review)

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Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance

By Janice Ross. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2007. 462 pp., illustrated. $34.95.

In 1959 when Hawaii and Alaska finally became states, the center of the United States shifted 464 miles toward the Pacific. With the arrival of Janice Ross' beautifully researched biography, Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance, it's time for modern dance to do the same: give the midpoint of the avant-garde dance continent a big shove westward.

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With a tone of persuasive poise, Ross builds a strong case for Anna Halprin as one of the most potent if underrecognized catalysts in dance since the '50s. It's an influence that is more often felt than noted. In part that's because Halprin has done most of her work north of San Francisco in outdoor spaces, like her famous "dance deck" at her home on Mt. Tamalpais. But it's also the result of the fact that Halprin is an artist of context and...

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