Curated by Elliot Mercer and Muriel Maffre, the exhibition “Mapping Dance: The Scores of Anna Halprin” opening this week at the Museum of Performance +Design (MP+D), is a partnership with California Historical Society (CHS) which currently hosts the exhibition, “Experiments in Environments: The Halprin Workshops, 1966 -1971” until May 1, 2016 at CHS.Californian choreographer Anna Halprin’s diverse career has spanned the field of dance since the late 1930s, breaking boundaries during the American art scene of the 1960s. She founded the Dancer’s Workshop Company of San Francisco in 1955 and presented their first full-length piece “Parades and Changes” in 1965 using nudity as a ceremony of trust; her participatory project “Citydance” (1960-1969, and 1976-1977) was a form of social mobility, using urban and natural landscapes as her stage.Halprin was interested in process rather than product. She created choreographies based on games and mundane tasks like dressing and washing, and improvisation in public spaces including parking lots, plazas, subways and construction, leading to multiple arrests. A self-proclaimed “breaker of modern dance,” Anna Halprin helped pioneer postmodern dance through 150 full-length dance theatre works. She continues to make revolutionary work today, exploring the beauty of the aging body and its relationship to nature. Anna Halprin is one of MP+D's most researched subjects. Her choreographic scores represent visual and instructional mappings of the temporal, spatial and participatory dimensions of the performances she imagined and produced. They also make visible her visionary process and creative framework while keeping a permanent record of her artistic activity. The museum’s on-going project includes the development of the Anna Halprin Digital Archives.The current exhibition, “Mapping Dance: The Scores of Anna Halprin,” comprises a selection of her iconic choreographic scores contextualized with performance photographs and videos ranging in dates from 1959 to 1987, including scores for “Five-Legged Stool” (1961-62), “Esposizione” (1963) and “Procession” (1964).Also featured in the exhibition, and on loan from Anna Halprin, will be “City Dance '78” (1978), a large felt tip marker and ink on paper scroll representing choreography by Anna Halprin and the San Francisco Dancer's Workshop for a performance that premiered on June 10, 1978 at various locations throughout San Francisco. A self-activated participatory Sensory Tour of the San Francisco Yerba Buena neighborhood, specially created by Anna Halprin in collaboration with visual artist Aïssa Nemeri for the occasion, will accompany the exhibition and will be made available as a take-away score for the duration of the exhibition.“Mapping Dance: The Scores of Anna Halprin” exhibition runs from March 17 - May 31, 2016 at the Museum of Performance + Design, San Francisco, USA. Additional events include, Curator’s Tour on April 21, 2016, and Artist’s Tour on May 19, 2016.
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