The Anna Halprin Digital Archives consists of photographs and documents selected from more than sixty linear feet of materials of the Anna Halprin Papers at the Museum of Performance + Design. For more detailed information about these holdings, please refer to the Anna Halprin Papers Finding Aid here. The materials on this website are meant to be a sampling of items from the collection.
All images in the Archive are low-resolution JPEG files meant for research use only. Please contact MP+D at info@mpdsf.org for more information or to set up an in-person appointment to view the materials.
Resources referenced for this online collection include the Anna Halprin Papers, Anna Halprin's website www.annahalprin.org, and Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance by Janice Ross (University of California Press: 2007)
Cataloging, digitization, and access supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Art Works (2013-2014).
Cataloging, digitization, and access supported in part by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. Art Works and the Gladys Delmas Foundation (2021-2022).
Anna Halprin’s diverse career in dance has spanned more than 75 years. Since her arrival in San Francisco in 1945,...