Bay Area choreographer Anna Halprin, who celebrates her 90th birthday in July, is a force of nature. Not the kind that steamrolls everything in its path, but a gently, relentlessly persistent drive, ...

The Marin County dancer and choreographer wanted to create dances “that matter to people in their real lives.” She died at age 100. Influential choreographer and dancer Anna Halprin has died at age ...

Anna Halprin, a dancer and choreographer who sought to move beyond what she saw as the constraints of modern dance, and whose experiments inspired, challenged and sometimes perplexed generations of ...

Her work, which stressed improvisation, attracted students, disciples and enthusiasts fascinated by the creative issues she explored and the way she explored them. By Jack Anderson The movement ...

While the creative cross-pollination between Lawrence and Anna Halprin has been in the limelight in recent years, the Radical Bodies exhibition (at the New York Public Library Performing Arts branch) ...

Anna Halprin, a celebrated dance teacher and choreographer who smashed the boundaries of contemporary dance in the 1950s and 1960s by embracing a naturalistic and often audaciously improvisational ...

Anna Halprin has spent much of her career examining how ritual can inform dance. But when it comes to one of the most common rituals - the birthday - the iconoclastic modern dancer and choreographer ...

When UC Berkeley’s University Art Museum (now known as the Berkeley Art Museum, or BAM) first opened its doors in November 1970, Peter Selz, the new institution’s director, wanted to make a big splash ...

Dance legend Anna Halprin, now in her eighties, has spent more than 50 years challenging the conventions of modern dance. A visionary in the field, she continues to teach, choreograph and perform. In ...