Anna Halprin (1920–2021), pioneering choreographer who used dance to heal
Anna Halprin was a choreographer known for her experimental postmodern dance style, as well as for using dance as a healing tool.Halprin based her work in California, where she founded the San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop in 1959. She broke boundaries there by bring dance out of the studio and concert hall, having dancers perform in parks, on rooftops, and in other non-traditional dance spaces.