Anna Halprin
dal 17/1/2008 al 5/4/2008
Segnalato da
17/1/2008
Anna Halprin
YBCA Galleries, San Francisco
Pioneer of postmodern dance and performance, Halprin is known for blurring boundaries: between art forms, professional and amateur, performer and audience. On view are archival documents, photos, films, sound recordings, scores, press cuttings, and illustrated partitions.
curated by Jacqueline Caux
Pioneer of postmodern dance and performance, Halprin is known for blurring boundaries: between art forms, professional and amateur, performer and audience. Her radical improvisational experiments took her San Francisco company outside the theater where they danced on the street wearing ordinary clothing.
Halprin’s gift to postmodern dance was the “task,” the idea that everyday activities were worthy of exploration—like Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, Halprin showed us how extraordinary the ordinary can be. Diagnosed with cancer in 1972, Halprin made a characteristically bold decision: she had dedicated her life to art; from now on she would dedicate her art to life, working with cancer and AIDS patients to integrate creativity into daily existence through what she calls the life-art process.
Join us for an audiovisual installation and celebration of Anna Halprin’s work. On view are archival documents, photos, films, sound recordings, scores, press cuttings, and illustrated partitions. A catalog available in French, accompanies the exhibition.
YBCA Galleries
701 Mission St. at Third, San Francisco USA