This guide follows the work of Anna Halperin, a radical dancer, and chronicles her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s by developing her leading dance style as an accessible, life-saving art form. Following the evolution of the San Francisco Workshop for Dancers, Halprin explores with avant-garde theater, music, visual arts and architecture in the 1950s and 1960s, and analyzes its work from this period.

Anna Halperin offers not only a useful introduction to the life and work of this key character, but also provides an important historical guide to the time when the first dance was explored outside the theater and considered a panacea for individuals and communities.

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