Scoring the Dance Ritual
- Understand the concept of dance-ritual
- Explain how dance can be a healing resource
- Gain an awareness if the importance of dance for community healing
- Experience planned movement, or score, as as a tool to lead community healing
- Reflect on the movement experience as a group
ANNA HALPRIN "Circle the Mountain":
Community Healing Through Dance - 1985
Question 1
Individual Work
After watching the videos, write a response to whatever part of it impacted you the most.
(Specify the min. in the video that you are referring to)
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A Note to Remember
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VI
Case Study
Bios
Josephine Landor
A
native of Madera in the San Joaquin Valley, Mrs. Landor studied art at
the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, where she was a
student of her husband-to-be, Walter Landor. They were married for 55
years, until his death in 1995.
Together
they formed Landor Associates, a firm that later designed the familiar
logos for Coca-Cola, General Electric, Shell Oil, British Airways, Dole
and General Motors' Saturn Corp.
In
addition to her talent as a painter, Mrs. Landor served for more than
50 years as the artistic director for the Anna Halprin Dancer's
Workshop, helping design the scenery and costumes worn by the dancers.
Source: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Josephine-Landor-2956867.php
Anna Halprin
Anna
Halprin (born Hannah Dorothy Schuman; July 13, 1920 – May 24, 2021) was
an American choreographer and dancer. She helped redefine dance in
postwar America and pioneer the experimental art form known as
postmodern dance and referred to herself as a breaker of the rules of
modern dance. In the 1950s, she established the San Francisco Dancers'
Workshop to give artists like her a place to practice their art.
Exploring the capabilities of her own body, she created a systematic way of moving using kinesthetic awareness. With her husband, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, she developed the RSVP cycles, a creative methodology that includes the idea of scores and can be applied broadly across all disciplines. Many of her creations have been scores, including Myths in the 1960s which gave a score to the audience, making them performers as well, and a highly participatory Planetary Dance (1987). Influenced by her own battle with cancer and her healing journey, Halprin became known for her work with the terminally ill patients as well as creative movement work in nature.
In 1978, together with her daughter Daria Halprin, she founded the Tamalpa Institute, based in Marin County, California, which offers training in Life/Art process, their creative methodology. Halprin has written books including: Movement Rituals, Moving Toward Life: Five Decades of Transformational Dance and Dance as a Healing Art. A documentary film about her life and art, Breath Made Visible directed by Ruedi Gerber, premiered in 2010.
READING
LINK:
Making Dances that Matter: Resources for Community Creativity
Read the introduction to this book.
Group Work
Summary 2
Summarize the points that resonate with your own ideas about dance as a healing resource.
Question 3
On page 3, Halprin expresses one of her central intentions when creating dances.
How does her intention apply to the use of dance for community healing?
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VII
Activity
Group Work
a) Put yourself in the position of a dance/movement therapist and thinking of a community you would like to work with, write an artistic statement of intention.
b) Based on your statement of intention create a dance-ritual score.
c) Enact the score by performing your ritual-dance.
d) Give your dance-ritual a title.
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VIII
Glossary
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Sources
Anna Halprin Digital Archive
https://annahalprindigitalarchive.omeka.net/exhibits/show/mapping-dance
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STUDENTS' WORK
Scoring
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