Making Dances That Matter: Resources for Community Creativity

Making Dances That Matter: Resources for Community CreativityDance innovator shares wisdom and scores Anna Halprin, vanguard postmodern dancer turned community artist and healer, has created ground breaking dances with communities all over the world. Here, she presents her philosophy and experience, as well as step by step processes for bringing people together to create dances that foster individual and group well being. At the heart of this book are accounts of two dances: the Planetary Dance, which continues

Dance innovator shares wisdom and scores

Anna Halprin, vanguard postmodern dancer turned community artist and healer, has created ground-breaking dances with communities all over the world. Here, she presents her philosophy and experience, as well as step-by-step processes for bringing people together to create dances that foster individual and group well-being. At the heart of this book are accounts of two dances: the Planetary Dance, which continues to be performed throughout the world, and Circle the Earth. The Circle the Earth workshop for people living with AIDS has generated dozens of "scores" for others to adapt. In addition, the book provides a concrete guide to Halprin's celebrated Planetary Dance. Now more than 35 years old, Planetary Dance promotes peace among people and peace with the Earth. Open to everyone, it has been performed in more than 50 countries. In 1995 more than 400 participants joined her in a Planetary Dance in Berlin commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Potsdam Agreements, at the end of World War II. More recently, she took the Planetary Dance to Israel, bringing together Israelis and Palestinians as well as other nationalities. Throughout this book Halprin shows how dance can be a powerful tool for healing, learning and mobilizing change, and she offers insight and advice on facilitating groups. If we are to survive, Halprin argues, we must learn, experientially, how our individual stories weave together and strengthen the fabric of our collective body. Generously illustrated with photographs, charts and scores, this book will be a boon to dance therapists, educators and community artists of all types.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 02/08/2019
ISBN: 9780819575654
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.70d