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LEGACY OF WISDOM
www.legacyofwisdom.org
[email protected]
Project Directors:
Jay Goldfarb
Mostackerstrasse 11
4051 Basel, Switzerland
Tel/fax +41- 61-361 5375
Team & Sponsors: Ram Dass, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Roshi Joan Halifax,
Harry Moody, Dr. Sarita Bhalotra, Dr. Rodolfo Musco, Mickey Lemle, Judy Goggin
Wisdom Area: Secret
Question: Do you have a “secret” for living a good (last 1/2 of) life?
YouTube Video Title: Legacy of Wisdom – Anna Halprin - The Secret
YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu67wboXKro
Length: 3:19
Interviewee: ANNA HALPRIN (www.annahalprin.org)
Anna Halprin's diverse career has spanned the field of dance
since the late 1930s, creating revolutionary directions for the art
form and inspiring fellow choreographers to take modern dance to
new dimensions. James Roose – Evans author of “Experimental
Theatre” called Anna one of the most important theatre artists of
the 20th century.
Anna founded the groundbreaking San Francisco Dancer's
Workshop in 1955 and the Tamalpa Institute in 1978 with her
daughter Daria Halprin. Her students have included Meredith
Monk, Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti, Dohee Lee,
Dana Iova-Koga ,Shinichi Momo Iova-Koga, Isak Immanuel, G Hoffman Soto and many
others. Her famous outdoor deck has been an explorative haven for numerous dancers and
choreographers, including Merce Cunningham, Eiko and Koma, and Min Tanaka and Anne
Collod ; composers such as John Cage, Luciano Berio, Terry Riley, LeMonte Young, and
Morton Subotnick; visual artists such as Robert Morris and Robert Whiteman; poets such as
Richard Brautigan, James Broughton, and Michael McClure; and countless others.
She is an early pioneer in the expressive arts healing movement and led countless
collaborative dance programs with terminally ill patients, long committed to a belief in the
connection between movement and the healing power of dance.
In 2009, the film "Breath Made Visible". a documentary of Anna's life and work premiered
and has since been showing in cities around the world. Anna gets the most out of her life,
living by her adage “Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint”.
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LEGACY OF WISDOM
www.legacyofwisdom.org
[email protected]
Project Directors:
Jay Goldfarb
Mostackerstrasse 11
4051 Basel, Switzerland
Tel/fax +41- 61-361 5375
Team & Sponsors: Ram Dass, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Roshi Joan Halifax,
Harry Moody, Dr. Sarita Bhalotra, Dr. Rodolfo Musco, Mickey Lemle, Judy Goggin
Question: Do you have a “secret” for living a good last 1/3 of life?
Transcript (ENGLISH):
Interviewer: if you were to be asked "is there a secret that you could offer to somebody, you know you
have a secret for life"? What would you tell somebody what is your secret to life?
Anna: Have an intention. Spend whatever amount of time it takes to create an intention for your life and
then you have a marker to say “yes I'm doing the right thing right now, I'm really living my intention”.
But if you don't have any intention and you sort of just go blindly from day-to-day then there is no way to
appreciate each day as it comes because you have nothing to beat off of. So for me it's been very
important to have an intention and then to be able to say, yeah, this was, this was good, I was able to
really take care of this.
And if this is the end of the interview I address that in this little statement in this book if I could read that.
A flood of questions arise, what next?
Where am I going, what is my work now that I'm 91 years old?
What do elders in other cultures to?
They teach the young,
they heal the sick,
they care for the land,
they hold the rituals,
they speak with the ancestors,
they maintain the family.
“And I take all of these actions and call upon the spirits,
wherever they may be,
whatever that might mean and however they may appear,
to lead me further into this evolution of dance to which I have committed my life.
I continue to believe in the shining potential set forth by all of this work in its evolution
from rebellion to expansion to community to healing and back again, to the natural world.”
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LEGACY OF WISDOM
www.legacyofwisdom.org
[email protected]
Project Directors:
Jay Goldfarb
Mostackerstrasse 11
4051 Basel, Switzerland
Tel/fax +41- 61-361 5375
Team & Sponsors: Ram Dass, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Roshi Joan Halifax,
Harry Moody, Dr. Sarita Bhalotra, Dr. Rodolfo Musco, Mickey Lemle, Judy Goggin
Transcript (German - deutsch):
Interviewer: Gibt es ein Lebens-Geheimnis, das du jemandem anbieten könntest? Welches ist Dein
Lebensgeheimnis über das du sprechen könntest?
Anna: Habe eine Absicht! Verbringe soviel Zeit, wie nur möglich, eine Lebensabsicht zu schaffen. Dann
hast du einen Markstein, der dir anzeigt, dass du gerade jetzt das Richtige machst, du diese richtige
Absicht lebst. Hast du keine solche Absicht und lebst du blind von einem Tag zum anderen, dann schätzt
du nicht jeden Tag gleich, als, wenn es etwas zu erfüllen, zu erreichen gibt. Für mich ist es wichtig, eine
Absicht zu haben, sagen zu können, dass das gut war, dass ich das erarbeiten konnte. So funktioniere ich,
vielleicht hilft es einem anderen Menschen auch.
Wenn das das Ende des Interviews ist, möchte ich ein Gedicht aus meinem Buch anbringen, das meine
Ansicht beschreibt.
„ Ein Flut von Fragen steigt an, was kommt als Nächstes?
Wohin gehe ich, was ist meine Arbeit mit 91 Jahren?
Was machen Alternde in anderen Kulturen?
Sie unterrichten die Jungen,
sie heilen die Kranken,
sie dienen ihrem Land,
sich halten Ritual ab,
sie sprechen mit ihren Vorfahren,
sei unterhalten ihre Familien.
Und ich nehme dies Aktionen und rufe die Geister an, wo immer sie auch sind, was immer das bedeutet
und wie auch immer sie erscheinen, um mir die Evolution im Tanz dem ich mein Leben hingab, zu zeigen.
Ich fahre fort, dem leuchtenden Potential Glauben zu schenken, dem Potential, das diese Arbeit beinhaltet,
das von Rebellion zu Expansion, zu Gemeinschaft, zu Heilung und zurück zur Natur führt.“
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