Health & Fitness
Marin-Based Post-Modern Dancer Anna Halprin To Perform the Couretsan and the Crone
Do you think nonogenarians aren't sexy, creative, and productive? Think again. Free Bay Area performance by Anna Halprin, world-famous post-modern dancer, Sat, Mar 24.
Anna Halprin, world-famous post-modern dancer, highlights Women’s History Month with a performance of The Courtesan and the Crone at AgeSong, Lake Merritt, 1800 Madison Street, Oakland, CA 94612, Saturday, March 24, from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm, followed by a discussion led by Nader Shabahangi, AgeSong CEO.
She first performed this dance for AgeSong to a standing ovation crowd at the Poetics of Aging Conference , November, 2011. The upcoming free performance is open to the public. After the performance and discussion, all are invited to a Poetics of Aging 2012 Planning Meeting. RSVP sallyg@agesong.com
Nonogenarian Halprin, who resides and and teaches at her studio in Kentfield, has written several books, including Movement Rituals, Moving Toward Life: Five Decades of Transformational Dance and Dance as a Healing Art.
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She currently does research in connection with the Tamalpa Institute, based in Marin County, California, which she founded with her daughter, Daria Halprin, in 1978. She co-created, with her husband, the late landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, of theRSVP Cycles, a creative methodology that can be applied broadly across all disciplines. A documentary film about her life and art, Breath Made Visible directed by Ruedi Gerber, premiered in 2010.
