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Influential choreographer and dancer Anna Halprin has died at age 100. Her art spanned high modernist works and collaborations with artists like John Cage
Her work, which stressed improvisation, attracted students, disciples and enthusiasts fascinated by the creative issues she explored and the way she explored them.
Anna Halprin. Photo: Shawncalhoun/Wikipedia Commons. May 26, 2021 at 3:24pm
Pioneering choreographer and dancer Anna Halprin died at home in Kentfield, California, on May 24 at the age of one hundred. The news was announced by her daughter Daria Halprin on Facebook. Known for innovating what is now called postmodern dance in the early portion of her wide-ranging career, and for her participatory choreography involving the audience, Halprin devoted her life to “expanding dance so that it’s part of life,” using it to explore social conditions and the importance of communion as well as healing, teaching the form to senior citizens and AIDS and cancer patients. In 1966