Anna Halprin

Off center, an old woman sits on a metal chair in front of white curtains. Her hands sit comfortably on top of her stomach, and she smiles mischievously at the camera.
Photo: Ron Wyman

Becoming “Not You” in Action Theater: An Interview with Skye Hughes

Brendan McCall

Skye Hughes talks about her experience with Action Theater

Photo: University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives

Moving Lessons: Relearning Our History as Dance Educators

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

H’Doubler didn’t teach from a codified movement technique, and valued improvisation and discovery above all.

Life Lines: Ally at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

Carolyn Merritt

There is the biography... And there is the universal—the multitudes of a single life, the luck of longevity.

Janine Antoni in collaboration with Anna Halprin

Taking Off from Anna Halprin’s Dance Deck: Ally at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

Jonathan Stein

Halprin’s most recent dance deck-mates include Janine Antoni and Stephen Petronio

Photo: Carlos Avendano

“Quite Visceral and Quite Unusual”: Adrian Heathfield on “Ally”

Ellen Chenoweth

Janine Antoni, Stephen Petronio and Anna Halprin working in the meeting space between forms.

The Joy of Movement with Anna Halprin and Group Motion

Lisa Kraus

Picture an old woman painted white, hair matted with straw, folded into a hollowed-out spot of earth with grasses waving above. She moves glacially...