This week’s Dance First Member Insight is a tribute to Anna Halprin contributed by The Tamalpa Institute.
Anna Halprin, a dancer and choreographer who sought to move beyond what she saw as the constraints of modern dance and whose experiments inspired, challenged, and sometimes perplexed generations of dancers and audiences, died on Monday at her home in Kentfield, Calif., in Marin County. She was 100.
Fascinated by movement as a child, Ms. Halprin was encouraged by her parents, who enrolled her in dance classes and even occasionally had dance teachers live in their house. She attracted the attention of Doris Humphrey, one of the era’s leading choreographers, but Ms. Halprin knew that her family wanted her to attend college. She instead enrolled in the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which offered a progressive modern dance curriculum.
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