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Lawrence and Anna Halprin: Inner landscapes

Title
Lawrence and Anna Halprin: Inner landscapes [videorecording]
Publication
c1991.

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Moving imageUse in library *MGZIC 9-3179Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
  • Halprin, Anna
  • Halprin, Lawrence.
  • Brechin, Gray A.
  • Ross, Janice.
  • McHarg, Ian L., 1920-2001.
  • Monk, Meredith.
  • Cunningham, Merce
  • Rainer, Yvonne, 1934-
  • Broughton, James, 1913-1999.
  • Halprin, Daria.
  • Schechner, Richard, 1934-
  • Kollek, Teddy, 1911-2007.
  • Segal, George.
  • Graham, Martha
  • Saffa, Joan.
  • Steinberg, Stephen Cobbett.
  • Schaller, Linda.
  • Graham, Martha.
  • Citydance (San Francisco, Calif.)
  • KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
Description
1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (58 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 3/4 in.
Summary
Documentary on the lives and careers of landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and dancer Anna Halprin, who are husband and wife. Their works are explored as manifestations of the "California aesthetic", as avant-garde art, and as expressions of their deeply held belief in art as a community activity. In addition to the Halprins themselves, commentaries are offered by their daughter Daria Halprin-Khalighi, dancers Meredith Monk and Yvonne Rainer, dance specialists Janice Ross and Richard Schechner, architecture specialists Gray Brechin and Ian McHarg, artist George Segal, poet/filmmaker James Broughton, and Teddy Kollek, mayor of Jerusalem. Among the events highlighted in the discussion of Anna's career are the founding of Dancers' Workshop in 1955; her avant-garde choreography of the 1960s, notably Parades and changes; and her continuing workshops in group movement, ritual, and healing. The numerous dance excerpts include: Martha Graham in Lamentation; Merce Cunningham at one of Anna's workshops; Anna dancing in James Broughton's b&w film Four in the afternoon; Anna's works Hangar, Procession (b&w), and Parades and changes (b&w); the documentary film The bust (b&w, 1969), which recorded confrontations between Anna's workshop students and people in the streets; Ceremony of us (b&w), a collaboration between white dancers from Dancers' Workshop and black dancers from Studio Watts, Los Angeles; Citydance, a city-wide dance event first held in San Francisco in 1976; and many glimpses of Anna dancing at different stages of her life.
Uniform Title
  • Procession (Choreographic work : Halprin)
  • Parades and changes (Choreographic work : Halprin)
  • Ceremony of us (Choreographic work : Halprin)
Subjects
Note
  • Produced by the Cultural Programming Department of KQED-TV, San Francisco. Producer/director: Joan Saffa. Coordinating producer: Stephen Cobbett Steinberg. Executive producer: Linda Schaller. Writer: Charlie Pearson. Narrator: Ben Thum.
Call Number
*MGZIC 9-3179
OCLC
NYPY926007522-F
Title
Lawrence and Anna Halprin: Inner landscapes [videorecording]
Imprint
c1991.
Local Subject
Television. Lawrence and Anna Halprin: Inner landscapes.
Motion pictures. Four in the afternoon.
Local Subject
Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- California.
Avant-garde dance.
Child dancers.
Local Subject
Nudity in dance.
Added Author
Halprin, Anna, commentator.
Halprin, Anna, choreographer.
Halprin, Anna, dancer.
Halprin, Lawrence. Commentator
Brechin, Gray A. Commentator
Ross, Janice. Commentator
McHarg, Ian L., 1920-2001. Commentator
Monk, Meredith. Commentator
Cunningham, Merce, dancer.
Rainer, Yvonne, 1934- Commentator
Broughton, James, 1913-1999. Commentator
Halprin, Daria. Commentator
Schechner, Richard, 1934- Commentator
Kollek, Teddy, 1911-2007. Commentator
Segal, George. Commentator
Graham, Martha, dancer.
Graham, Martha, choreographer.
Saffa, Joan. Producer. Director
Steinberg, Stephen Cobbett. Producer
Schaller, Linda. Producer
Citydance (San Francisco, Calif.)
KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
Graham, Martha. Lamentation
Added Title
Procession (Choreographic work : Halprin)
Parades and changes (Choreographic work : Halprin)
Ceremony of us (Choreographic work : Halprin)
Research Call Number
*MGZIC 9-3179
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