Anna Halprin Breath Made Visible — DOP

Anna Halprin
Breath Made Visible

March 24 2014

A follower of DOP pointed me to a documentary and it indeed belongs here: Breath Made Visible, a film about the life of Anna Halprin, an early pioneer in the expressive arts healing movement.

I really love her approach to dance. Dance is not something you do for an audience to entertain, it’s a very real experience. It can heal you. “Before I had cancer, I lived my life in service of dance, and after I had cancer, I danced in the service of life.”

Seeing a dance performance never worked for me. I always felt it’s such a participatory thing that works for the dancers rather than the viewers.

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