The Choreography of Environments - Ross, Janice
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The Choreography of Environments traces how the objects and architectural features of our homes and gardens shape who we are. Specifically, this book focuses on the 1950s iconic mid-century modern home and gardens of urban designer Lawrence Halprin and dancer Anna Halprin as a hidden archive. It explores four objects from their house and gardens - staircase, deck, chair, and window --to trace how, despite the conservative postwar climate, this intimate domestic space became a radical laboratory reshaping postmodern dance invention urban design and their expansion into civic, social, and…mehr

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The Choreography of Environments traces how the objects and architectural features of our homes and gardens shape who we are. Specifically, this book focuses on the 1950s iconic mid-century modern home and gardens of urban designer Lawrence Halprin and dancer Anna Halprin as a hidden archive. It explores four objects from their house and gardens - staircase, deck, chair, and window --to trace how, despite the conservative postwar climate, this intimate domestic space became a radical laboratory reshaping postmodern dance invention urban design and their expansion into civic, social, and environmental awareness in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Autorenporträt
Janice Ross is Professor Emerita of Dance Studies at the Theatre and Performance Studies Department, Stanford University, where she taught for 34 years. She has degrees from UC Berkeley (BA) and Stanford (MA & PhD). She is the author of five books and numerous articles. Her awards include Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships; two Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships; Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, Italy; NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts Fellowship; research grants from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and the Djerassi Foundation. She received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Stanford and is an Honorary Fellow of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Israel.