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Introduction Introduction
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Biohistory Biohistory
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Early Memories of Displacement Early Memories of Displacement
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The Jewish Roots of Anna Halprin’s Civic Artistry The Jewish Roots of Anna Halprin’s Civic Artistry
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Midwestern Progressivism and Dance as Ethical Imperative Midwestern Progressivism and Dance as Ethical Imperative
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Dances of Mourning and Exilic Experience, 1938–1942 Dances of Mourning and Exilic Experience, 1938–1942
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Meditations on Violence and the Ethics of Dance Meditations on Violence and the Ethics of Dance
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Nature and Activism: Jewish Philosophy in Action Nature and Activism: Jewish Philosophy in Action
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Introduction to a Public Conversation with Anna Halprin Arizona State University, October 14, 2018 Introduction to a Public Conversation with Anna Halprin Arizona State University, October 14, 2018
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20 Anna Halprin’s Radical Body: Ethics, Empowerment, and the Environment
Get accessNinotchka D. Bennahum is Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Published:18 March 2022
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Guided by an unwavering belief in the moral capacity of dance to transform human society and effect social change, Anna Schuman Halprin (b. 1920) shaped the radical, Jewish nature of postmodern dance. With her invention of task-based improvisation as a method of devising dance—a clandestine, communitarian agent of change—Halprin espoused dance making as a basic human right. This chapter essays how Halprin envisioned postwar dance as environmental study rather than merely physical practice. Through her visionary work Halprin reconceived movement as engendering climate activism and social justice, radical beliefs that emerged out of her Talmudic pedagogy. Dancing bodies were retrained, away from technique, narrative, and desire, toward a reinvention out of one’s relationship to and study of the natural world.
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