Breath Made Visible: Anna Halprin

Breath Made Visible: Anna Halprin (DVD) (*)

$24.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Ruedi Gerber

Written By:
Ruedi Gerber

Actors:
Anna Halprin ..... Herself
Lawrence Halprin ..... Himself
Merce Cunningham ..... Himself
A.A. Leath ..... Himself
John Graham ..... Himself
Rana Halprin ..... Herself

Synopsis:

WARNING: This DVD cannot be be sold to organizations in North America, only to individuals.

Whenever Oprah reminds us to live our best lives, a giant picture of Anna Halprin should fill our television screens. Pushing 90 and still pushing boundaries, this avant-garde West Coast choreographer is finally packaged and immortalized in 'Breath Made Visible,' a well-deserved tribute to a woman who can't stand still. Bracketed by excerpts from a 2002 solo performance at the Joyce Theater in New York, Ruedi Gerber's adoring documentary captures both the passion and the pioneering spirit of Ms. Halprin's revolutionary performances. Inhaling nature and exhaling it in dance, she follows her bliss with whimsical, soul-stirring expressiveness. Reverently disrobing to the jaunty strains of Petula Clark's 'Downtown' in the 1960s or, later, rolling in the surf wrapped in a membrane of cloth, Ms. Halprin discarded accepted notions of dance to confront (and sometimes infuriate) audiences who had yet to experience the proscenium-breaching anarchy of shows like 'Hair.' Astonishing footage of her early, often politically charged compositions strikingly reveals the cultural bleed of her staging and style, foreshadowing the scaffolding sets of 'Rent' and the ecstatic movements of fans at Grateful Dead concerts

BREATH MADE VISIBLE is the first feature length film about the life and career of Anna Halprin, the American dance pioneer who has helped redefine our notion of modern art with her belief in dance's power to teach, heal, and transform at all ages of life. This cinematic portrait blends recent interviews with counterparts such as the late Merce Cunningham, archival footage, including her establishment of the first multiracial dance company in the U.S., and excerpts of current performances such as 'Parades and Changes' at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, to weave a stunning, inspiring account of one of the most important cultural icons in modern dance.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 21 December, 2010.

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