Anna Halprin
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Anna Dorothy Halprin (born Anna Schuman; July 13, 1920 – May 25, 2021) was an American dancer. She helped create the experimental art form known as postmodern dance and referred to herself as the breaker of modern dance.[1] Born in Winnetka, Illinois she spent her entire career in San Francisco, California
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Anna Halprin | |
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Born | Anna Schuman (1920-07-13)July 13, 1920 |
Died | May 25, 2021(2021-05-25) (aged 100) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Dancer |
Years active | 1938-2020 |
Website | http://www.annahalprin.org/ |
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Halprin, along with her contemporaries such as Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, John Cage, and Robert Morris, collaborated and built a community based around the ideas of post-modern dance. In the 1950s, she created the San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop to give artists like her a place to practice their art.
Halprin died on May 25, 2021 in San Francisco just two months before her 101st birthday.[2]