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The Meadow Room

Join us for a lively talk with Stanford Professor Emerita Janice Ross, a dance historian, as she explores the hidden history of one of the most famous early Sea Ranch homes, the former vacation property of Anna and Lawrence Halprin. Drawing from her newest book on this legendary American art couple, and decades of interviews and research, Ross takes us inside the house that, together with its predecessor, the Halprin home in Kentfield, changed the course of contemporary dance and urban design. Sharing film clips and rare photographs from the legendary 1960s summer workshops the Halprins co-taught at Sea Ranch. Ross explores the surprising role ordinary objects in the Halprin homes and gardens played in shaping them as path-breaking artists.

This talk will be followed with a Q&A and book signing with the author.

Janice Ross is Professor Emerita, Theatre and Performance Studies Dept. Stanford University. She is the author of five books including Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance, (UC  Press, 2007) the definitive biography of Anna Halprin. Her most recent book on the Halprins, The Choreography of Environments: How the Anna and Lawrence Halprin Home Transformed Contemporary Dance and Urban Design was published earlier this year by Oxford University Press. Her recent academic articles have dealt with topics as diverse as performance as training for citizenship among incarcerated immigrants and ballet by Jewish Orthodox women Her awards include Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships; Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, Italy; NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts Fellowship and the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Stanford.

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The Choreography of Environments Author Event

The Choreography of Environments Author Event

October 13
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
The Sea Ranch Lodge

Monday, 10.13 at 3pm
The Meadow Room

Join us for a lively talk with Stanford Professor Emerita Janice Ross, a dance historian, as she explores the hidden history of one of the most famous early Sea Ranch homes, the former vacation property of Anna and Lawrence Halprin. Drawing from her newest book on this legendary American art couple, and decades of interviews and research, Ross takes us inside the house that, together with its predecessor, the Halprin home in Kentfield, changed the course of contemporary dance and urban design. Sharing film clips and rare photographs from the legendary 1960s summer workshops the Halprins co-taught at Sea Ranch. Ross explores the surprising role ordinary objects in the Halprin homes and gardens played in shaping them as path-breaking artists.

This talk will be followed with a Q&A and book signing with the author.

Janice Ross is Professor Emerita, Theatre and Performance Studies Dept. Stanford University. She is the author of five books including Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance, (UC  Press, 2007) the definitive biography of Anna Halprin. Her most recent book on the Halprins, The Choreography of Environments: How the Anna and Lawrence Halprin Home Transformed Contemporary Dance and Urban Design was published earlier this year by Oxford University Press. Her recent academic articles have dealt with topics as diverse as performance as training for citizenship among incarcerated immigrants and ballet by Jewish Orthodox women Her awards include Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships; Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, Italy; NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts Fellowship and the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Stanford.

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