"Anna Halprin radicalized contemporary performance with her democratic vision of dance as ethics instantiated in motion. Her eco-feminist choreographies constructed in alternative, site-specific spaces–San Francisco's busy streets. California's central coast, the outdoor dance deck of her Marin County home–offered every person the roots with which to become an artist. In this beautifully essayed volume, Halprin shares her own diasporic history as the root to her communitarian dance-making ethos."–Ninotchka Bennahum, author of Carmen, A Gypsy Geography
"Anna Halprin is a pioneer of postmodern dance, a warrior for connecting arts to social issues, and a healer of individuals and communities. Here, in crystal clear prose, her wisdom of the-body-in-the-world tumbles out. Borrowing concepts from various cultural traditions, Halprin lays out the scores she has created over a long lifetime of exploring and transgressing. Her ability to integrate body, mind, and spirit is both soothing and exhilarating."–Wendy Perron, author of Through the Eyes of a Dancer
