Friday, August 20, 10-11AM PDT
Janice Ross, Professor in the Department of Theater & Performance Studies at Stanford University, author of Experience As Dance and longtime friend, will offer an ONLINE lecture slide show on the Halprin work and legacy.
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Janice Ross, Professor in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies and former faculty director of ITALIC, Stanford’s residence-based freshman arts immersion program, has a B.A. with Honors from UC Berkeley and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford. Her research interests and four books focus on the intersections of social issues and their expression through performance. They include Like A Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia (Yale University Press, 2015), Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance (University of California Press, 2007), winner of a de la Torre Bueno Award 2008 Special Citation, San Francisco Ballet at 75 (Chronicle Books, 2007) and Moving Lessons: Margaret H’Doubler and the Beginning of Dance in American Education (University of Wisconsin Press, 2001). Her research interests concern performance and social justice, with a particular focus on tensions between political and aesthetic expression. Her essays on dance have been published in several anthologies, including Dignity in Motion: Dance, Human Rights and Social Justice, edited by Naomi Jackson (Scarecrow Press, 2008), Perspectives on Israeli and Jewish Dance, edited by Judith Brin Ingber (Wayne State University Press, 2008), The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counter-culture and the Avant-Garde, Performance and Ritual, edited by Mark Franco (Routledge, 2007), Reinventing Dance in the 1960s; Everything Was Possible, edited by Sally Banes (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), “Improvisation as Child’s Play” in Caught by Surprise: Essays on Art and Improvisation, edited by Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere (Wesleyan University Press, 2003). Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship to Israel, as well as research grants from the Iris Litt Fund of the Clayman Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the 2016 CORD Award for Outstanding Contributionst to Dance Research. Her articles on dance have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. She is past President of the International Society of Dance History Scholars.
If you’d like to leave a message in memory of Anna you can do so on the Dedications page of the website Tamalpa created in her honor.
In 2015, for her 95th birthday, Anna wrote: “One of my strongest wishes is for the success of the Tamalpa ArtCorps, a program that carries out a vision that has always been central to my work: dance as a healing and peace-making force for people all over the world.” Donations in honor of the memory of Anna can be made to Tamalpa Institute’s ArtCorps HERE.
