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The Choreography of Environments : How the Anna and Lawrence Halprin Home Transformed Contemporary Dance and Urban Design.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ross, Janice.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Movement, Aesthetics of.
- Kentfield (Calif.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Kentfield (Calif.).
- Halprin, Lawrence--Criticism and interpretation.
- Halprin, Lawrence.
- Halprin, Anna--Criticism and interpretation.
- Halprin, Anna.
- Halprin, Lawrence--Homes and haunts--California--Kentfield.
- Halprin, Anna--Homes and haunts--California--Kentfield.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2025.
- Summary:
- The Choreography of Environments traces how the objects and architectural features of our homes and gardens shape who we are. Specifically, this book focuses on the 1950s iconic mid-century modern home and gardens of urban designer Lawrence Halprin and dancer Anna Halprin as a hidden archive. It explores four objects from their house and gardens - staircase, deck, chair, and window --to trace how, despite the conservative postwar climate, this intimate domestic space became a radical laboratory reshaping postmodern dance invention urban design and their expansion into civic, social, and environmental awareness in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Floating Staircase and the Choreography of Processions
- The Instinctual Dance of Stair Walking
- The Harvard Years and Bauhaus Influence
- Stepping into Nature: The "Prelude" Stairs
- Lessons from Walking on Stairs
- Cascading Stairs and the Drama of Arrival
- The Steep Functional Stairs
- The Afterlife of Stairs in the Halprins' Dance and Landscape Design
- The Yosemite Falls Corridor
- 2 Choreographing Nature: The Dance Deck
- The Dance Deck: The Stage in a Suburban Backyard
- A Duet with Nature: Theater in the Garden
- A Choreographic Vision
- An Unlikely Collaboration between Architecture, Dance, and Nature
- An Invitation to a New Regard of Objects
- The Dance Deck as a Parenting and Workspace
- Nudity and the Dance Deck
- The Dance Deck and Museum Exhibitions
- 3 Disappearing Chairs and Participatory Dances
- Sit Down and Make Yourself Uncomfortable: JB Blunk Seating and the Halprin Home
- Modernist Seating
- The Last Chair Dances
- 4 The Picture Frame, Not the Picture: Windows in the Halprin House
- "The Picture Frame, Not the Picture"
- Framing Lived Experiences
- 5 Expanding Home: The Sea Ranch
- The Sea Ranch
- Experiments in Environment Workshops at The Sea Ranch
- The Sea Ranch Legacy
- Appendix Selected List of Exhibitions and Films of Anna Halprin, 2005-2021
- Part I: Exhibitions
- Part II: Films
- Part III: Performances
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-777566-7
- 0-19-777564-0
- OCLC:
- 1473802738
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