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Moving Toward Life: Five Decades Of Transformational Dance
By Anna Halprin
$27.50 ($3.00 S/H)
Moving Towards Life brings together for the first time Anna’s essays, interviews, manifestos, and teaching materials, along with over 100 illustrations, providing a rich account of the work that radicalized an entire generation of performers.

Movement Ritual
By Anna Halprin
Book - $24.00 ($3.00 S/H)
CD - $15.00 ($3.00 S/H)
Book + CD - $35.00 ($5.00 S/H)
Fifteen sequences of floor movements form a foundation for creative exploration, meditation, and body awareness. Anna guides you personally through each step of Movement ritual in the accompanying audiotape.

Returning To Health With Dance Movement And Imagery
By Anna Halprin
$22.00 ($3.00 S/H)
Returning to Health is a powerful tool for anyone who wants to find joy in living with an altered body, a book of wise and healing words from one of America’s greatest dancers who personally embodies the potential of celebrating life after cancer.

Anna Halprin
By Libby Worth & Helen Paynor
$22.00 ($3.00 S/H)
An extensive guide to Anna Halprin’s work written by certified practitioners. The work includes an overview of Halprin’s life and the evolution of her work as well as an investigation of her methodology including the Life/Art Process, RSVP Cycles for collective creativity, and the five stages of healing. Worth and Poynor also analyze Anna’s community performance rituals Circle the Earth and The Planetary Dance and her approach to work through movement explorations and scores.

Circle The Earth Manual
$15.00 ($3.00 S/H)
A chronicle of discoveries made by a community of people that joined together to care for one another and the earth. This community searched for their own myth and enacted it through a dance ritual. This manual is designed to enhance the understanding of the philosophy of the dance and contains graphic scores, stories, and performance suggestions.

The Planetary Dance Manual
$15.00 ($3.00 S/H)

Anna Halprin: Origin Of Performance (French)
A Catalogue Of 2006 Lyon Exhibition
$50.00 ($3.00 S/H)

Anna Halprin Experience As Dance
By Janice Ross
Forward by Richard Schechner
$37.00 ($3.00 S/H)
This first comprehensive biography examines Halprin’s fascinating life in the context of American culture-in particular, popular culture and the West Coast as a center of artistic experimentation from the Beats through the hippies. As she follows Halprin’s development from youth into old age, Ross describes in engrossing detail the artist’s roles as dancer, choreographer, performance theorist, community leader, cancer survivor, healer, wife, and mother.

Returning Home
By Andy Abrahams Wilson
45 Minutes – DVD or VHS
$37.00 ($3.00 S/H)
Returning Home is a breathtaking and groundbreaking dance documentary in which 80-something Anna Halprin, pioneer of postmodern dance, uses movement as a means of connecting the individual to nature, and art to real life. In collaboration with performance artist Eeo Stubblefield, Halprin moves along thresholds of earth, wind, water and fire, discovering lessons in loss and liberation.

Embracing The Earth Dances With Nature
By Andy Abrahams Wilson
23 Minutes – DVD
$37.00 ($3.00 S/H)
Embracing the Earth shows dancers under the artistic direction of acclaimed dance artist, Anna Halprin, moving with the shapes, rhythms, and textures of nature. Intimate and meditative imagery transports us to a place where self and environment merges, to a point of understanding that the human body and the body of the earth are one and the same.

Festival D'automne A Paris
Center Pompidou Paris
By Reudi Gerber
60 Minutes – DVD
$37.00 ($3.00 S/H)
Shown in this video of the performance: Parades and Changes (1965), Intensive Care; Reflection on Death and Dying (2000) and an impromptu site-specific promenade performance En Route (2004). The international company of musicians, composers, dancers, and designers created especially for the occasion testify both to her range of artists who have worked with her and their loyalty to her continuing creative interrogation of dance.

Seniors Rocking
By Reudi Gerber
10 Minutes – DVD
$20.00 ($3.00 S/H)
Seniors Rocking was a performance created with over 50 local seniors from different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Halprin chose a meadow by a lagoon for the performance site. The use of rocking chairs enabled everyone to participate. This simple tool evolved to symbolize the ongoing force or life force. The culminating moment in the film occurs when dancers leave their rocking chairs and walk hand in hand to the lagoon to send their legacies with the birds.

Circle The Earth, Dancing With Life On The Line (1989)
Produced By Media Arts West And Anna Halprin
40 Minutes – DVD or VHS
$37.00 ($3.00 S/H)
A documentary of the 1989 healing dance by Anna Halprin and created by people living with AIDS, ARC and HIV+ status along with their caregivers, supports and friends. One hundred people came together to form a community, confront their fears and express their anger, establish their hope, trust and love for one another, and create a group spirit of support and healing. The workshop process from which the performance developed is shown here as life affirming and uplifting.

Dance For Your Life
Steps Theatre Company For People Challenging AIDS
Directed By Anna Halprin
Produced By David Karp
DVD or VHS
$37.00 ($3.00 S/H)
This video demonstrates one way of challenging AIDS. Participants in the film have chosen to become actively and creatively involved in their own survival and in the process learn to live life fully. The dances you will be seeing are not necessarily pretty. They’re not rehearsed. And the participants are not trained dancers. The dances are created by the participants out of real life situations.

Positive Motion: Challenging Aids Through Dance And Ritual
By Andy Abrams Wilson
37 Minutes – DVD or VHS
$37.00 ($3.00 S/H)
Positive Motion is an exploratory dance group for men with HIV/AIDS. The video shows these men using the HIV crisis as a resource for creating dances that change the dancer. The video documents the first seven months of the group’s meetings. Positive Motion is about learning through dance what it means to want to live positively and with affirmation, and sharing that dire with others. Carry Me Home chronicles rehearsals and the performance which developed from the workshops for men with HIV/AIDS.

Planetary Dance 2003
Earthalive Communications
10 Minutes – DVD
$37.00 ($3.00 S/H)
A film of the 24th annual Planetary Dance. A dance ritual on Mount Tamalpais. A prayer for peace among people and peace the earth.

Anna Halprin: "Who Says I Have To Dance In A Theatre?"
By Jacqueline Caux 2006
50 Minutes – DVD
$37.00 ($3.00 S/H)
The work in natural environment: beaches, woods, streets…of he American pioneer of the Post Modern Dance and Performances working with professionals but also with ill people with cancer, aids, old people. Presented, during three months-from March to May 2006, at the Musée d’art Contemporian de Lyon as part of an exhibit dedicated to Anna Halprin’s work.

Out Of Boundaries
By Jacqueline Caux 2004
53 Minutes – DVD
$37.00 ($3.00 S/H)
The major breakthroughs and innovations of Anna Halprin, a leading figure in American post-modern dance, are explored through conversations with the choreographer, numerous clips from rehearsals and performances, and rare archival footage from the mid fifties to the present day.

My Lunch With Anna
By Alain Buffard 2005
52 Minutes
$37.00 ($3.00 S/H)
When French choreographer Alain Buffard set out to create a film about he legendary American dance artist Anna Halprin, the pair staged a series of lunches on sites that were used for her performances in San Francisco, her famous dance deck in Marin County, the Berkeley Art Museum, and Stinson Beach. The result is a move away from the documentary form, instead is a dialogue between two dancers. The project became an extended interview with astonishing moments of exchange.


For information on Halprin Life/Art Process training programs & workshops visit Tamalpa Institute’s website at www.tamalpa.org

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