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Fri Jan 18 - Sun Apr 6

Anna Halprin: At the Origin of Performance

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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)
701 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 map
cross street: 3rd St.
district: SoMa

Fri Jan 18 (12noon – 5 pm, Thu till 8pm)
Sat Jan 19 (12noon – 5 pm, Thu till 8pm)
Sun Jan 20 (12noon – 5 pm, Thu till 8pm)
Tue Jan 22 (12noon – 5 pm, Thu till 8pm)
Wed Jan 23 (12noon – 5 pm, Thu till 8pm)

Description
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.