Anna Halprin
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Department: Acting
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Breath Made Visible: Anna Halprin
Overview: BREATH MADE VISIBLE is the first feature length film about the life and career of Anna Halprin, the American dance pioneer who has helped redefine our notion of modern art with her belief in dance's power to teach, heal, and transform at all ages of life. This cinematic portrait blends recent interviews with counterparts such as the late Merce Cunningham, archival footage, including her establishment of the first multiracial dance company in the U.S., and excerpts of current performances such as "Parades and Changes" at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, to weave a stunning, inspiring account of one of the most important cultural icons in modern dance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-08-07
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Four in the Afternoon
Overview: Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-28
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Seniors Rocking
Overview: SENIORS ROCKING explores the artistic process of Anna Halprin, a pioneer of American dance, through the prism of a single performance piece. The film retraces not only the development of a unique performance with residents of two nursing homes in California, but also the growth of a sense of community when fifty people from various walks of life, age 65 to 100, join forces to perform together. Underpinned by Halprin’s conviction that dance and movement embolden people to express themselves and, in so doing, change their lives, the film shows how the participants give physical shape to their personal messages for posterity through a dance performance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-25
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Artists in Exile: A Story of Modern Dance in San Francisco
Overview: A film that chronicles over forty years of dancemaking in the San Francisco Bay Area. The film begins with dance revolutionary Anna Halprin and highlights seminal Bay Area choreographers including Mangrove, Tumbleweed, ODC/San Francisco, Margaret Jenkins, Dance Brigade, Joe Goode and Contraband. The films addresses the special nature of the Bay Area's social, political and environmental climate; the marginalization of Bay Area artists due to the New York dance establishment and the unique and vital dance community that continues to grow.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-22
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Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
Overview: A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual revolution, whose groundbreaking artistic celebrations of sexuality and the body influenced generations of the 1960s and '70s to profoundly embrace life and ‘follow your own weird’.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-09
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Minotaur
Overview: Minotaur was the center of in a solo exhibition at the New Museum, New York. Octogenarian choreographer Anna Halprin, pioneer of postmodern dance, recently created an erotic performance based on Auguste Rodin's rendering of the Greek legend. Minotaur traces labyrinthine transformations, in which photographs, sculpture and dance succeed and replace one another, and in which bodies and objects appear part of a continuous tissue. Fluctuations between disparate media are accompanied by shifts in gender dynamics; in Rodin's original the half-man / half-bull grips an ambivalent nymph, while in Halprin's iteration the female 'victim' turns the story on its head, wresting a melancholic triumph over her captor. A score by Matmos, which includes the sounds of Rodin sculptures being struck like instruments, echoes the sculpture's muscularity.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-28
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Journey in Sensuality: Anna Halprin and Rodin
Overview: Auguste Rodin's sculptures and Anna Halprin's creative process come together in this poetic film of dances in nature.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-28
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The Golden Positions
Overview: A lovely, poetic, humorous and crystal investigation of mankind standing, sitting and lying down.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-30
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Circle the Earth
Overview: Anna Halprin Dancer's Workshop Event
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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