It’s early evening, and Anna Halprin is leading one of her weekly dance and improvisation classes at her Marin County studio. She guides the dancers across the wood floor, gracefully demonstrating movement after movement. Her voice fills the room as she encourages students to dig deeper. In the dance community, Halprin is a living legend. Now 95, she is a pioneer in postmodern dance who began her career in the 1930s. Along with artists like Trisha Brown and John Cage she founded the influential, experimental Dancers’ Workshop in San Francisco in 1955. She and her husband, the late architect Lawrence Halprin, were frequent collaborators, and in 1978 she founded the Tamalpa Institute for expressive arts education and therapy with her daughter Daria Halprin. Halprin has influenced generations of dancers and artists with her unique integration of dance and healing work, as well as her use of performance to explore social issues. Much of this work has taken place at her home and studio here
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