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Anna Halprin's Urban Rituals
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 48, Number 2 (T 182), Summer 2004
- pp. 49-67
- Article
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How do Halprin's urban rituals contribute to today's dance aesthetics? Halprin forged her genre of urban ritual in the early 1960s by incorporating real-life tasks and relationships into her performances. Understanding Halprin's educational and philosophical history is essential to the writing of any postmodern dance history that takes into account ritual as a performance methodology and strategy.