Anna Halprin

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So when the Dancers' Workshop started up in the early '50s with Anna Halprin and-

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... she brought in Mort Subotnick and other people to found a, uh, the San Francisco Tape Music Center on Divisadero Street.

And they were the first Black members of that company.

Another notable one along those same lines is Anna Halprin, who graduated in 1940, and she became one of the main founders of the post-modern dance movement in San Francisco and New York City in the 1960s and '70s.

She was Anna Schumann when she was here at UW, and she met her husband, Lawrence Halprin, at the UW Hillel.

Lawrence Halprin was the landscape architect who also went on to become quite famous and, and change his field in the same way that, that, uh, Anna Halprin changed hers.

And Chiao-Ping, before we let you go, this Mar- Margaret H'Doubler, uh, her teaching methods, I understand, unique.

Still here in the present, advancing into the future.

She's got 25-plus years of teaching experience in the San Francisco Bay Area, and she blends yoga, somatic movement, rhythm, and voice through what she calls, uh, Groovement, uh, a group Groovement offering, and her one-on-one Core Voice Method offering.

And she says she's been shaped by studies at Esalen, which is in the Big Sur area, and she's learned under Anna Halprin and master drummer Babatunde Olatunji.

Alyssa helps people move out of their heads and into their bodies through what she does and find their inner truth with some clarity, confidence, and joy.

And she also has a TEDx talk that's out that's worth tracking down, I think, and it touches on some of the same topics that we're going to yogas-cuss today.

But I was in Big Sur at the gift store, the Heartbeat gift store, and I was kind of trying to figure out what I was gonna do with my life now that I was thinking, "Okay, I'm not gonna be a professional dancer.

I don't know what I'm gonna do, but I know I wanna do something.

Maybe it's, like, physical therapy or something related to the body." And I found this book called Dance as a Healing Art by Anna Halprin, who's, like, a postmodern dance, um, pioneer.

She's, she was an incredible woman, and she was a teacher for a lot of teachers who are now kind of at the forefront of the ecstatic dance movement and somatic therapy and a lot of, a lot of these type of movement-based expressive arts therapy is then, is what her program, the Tamalpa Institute, was.