- Collection:
- Big Joy Digital Collection
- Title:
- Anna Halprin interview, 2009-07
- Creator:
- Halprin, Anna
- Contributor to Resource:
- Adams, Art (Cinematographer)
Silha, Stephen;Slade, Eric - Publisher:
- Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2009-07
- Subject:
- Experimental films
Poets, American
Gay authors
Marriage - People:
- Broughton, James, 1913-1999
- Location:
- United States, California, Marin County, Kentfield, 37.95215, -122.5572
- Medium:
- interviews
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Topics discussed: First met James when she was performing The Nice Wife -- they immediately clicked; Exciting cross-pollination during the San Francisco Renaissance. "We weren't aware."; Compares to dance scene in New York. Multi-disciplinary freedom with poets, painters, writers, actors, architects.; Breaking boundaries: beyond the stage, beyond gender roles, connecting life with art; Connected with Broughton through wit and humor, improvising to his poetry; Kermit Sheets produced at San Francisco Playhouse, he allowed things to happen; Describes process for making "Princess Printemps" in Broughton's film Four in the Afternoon; Describes her part in The Golden Positions -- lying, sitting, standing; Talks about The Bed, and Alan Watts' introduction of Zen philosophy; Reads "This is It," talks about its succinct originality; James and Suzanna's marriage, and his failure as a father; Relationship with Joel was what he needed, gave him a whole new life; Sweet loving context of occasional poems, like "Everything is Connected" for Imogen Cunningham; Never saw him act on his dark side, his depression, but knew it was there; Broughton's work as universal, "King Lear in a whole new costume"
Anna Halprin (born 1920) helped pioneer the experimental art form known as postmodern dance, and referred to herself as a breaker of the rules of modern dance. In the 1950s, she established the San Francisco Dancers' Workshop to give artists like her a place to practice their art. Being able to freely explore the capabilities of her own body, she created a systematic way of moving using kinesthetic awareness. Halprin has written books including: "Movement Rituals, Moving Toward Life: Five Decades of Transformational Dance" and "Dance as a Healing Art." With her husband, the late landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, she created the "RSVP Cycles," a creative methodology that can be applied broadly across all disciplines. She appears in a number of James Broughton's films. - Local Identifier:
- W146_HalprinA_200907
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/bigjoy/id/16
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Halprin, Anna, interviewed by Stephen Silha and Eric Slade, July 2009, Big Joy Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 00:28:15
- Original Collection:
- Big Joy Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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