Scoring the Dance Ritual

 

 
I

Check in

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II
 
Unit: The Circle
 
Theme: Scoring
 
 
Introduction
 
As an alternative to set choreography, Halprin has developed unique methods of dance scoring. Her dance scores communicate the essential spatial, temporal, and physical instructions for each performance work. These two-dimensional renderings of her movement ideas and choreographic structures are designed in ways that inspire users to apply their own creative sensibilities to embodying and carrying out their instructions. Halprin’s dance scores are simultaneously structured and fluid. They exist as records of Halprin’s creative activity and serve as the impetus for new productions.


 
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III
 
Learning Objectives
 
  • 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
 

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IV
 
 
Main Lesson
 
 1

Scoring

 
 
2

Free Movement





3

Dance Ritual


 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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V

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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IX

 

Sources

Anna Halprin Digital Archive

https://annahalprindigitalarchive.omeka.net/exhibits/show/mapping-dance

 

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X

 STUDENTS' WORK


Scoring

 







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