The Choreography of Environments : How the Anna and Lawrence Halprin Home Transformed Contemporary Dance and Urban Design

The Choreography of Environments: How the Anna and Lawrence Halprin Home Transformed Contemporary Dance and Urban Design explores how objects and the domestic spaces seep into the aesthetic consciousness of movement-based artists, like dancers and urban designers, significantly shaping their approach to movement invention and choreography.If these objects and spaces happen to have been designed by a leading modernist architect and landscape designer working with the dancer, then the aesthetic imprint is amplified.Dance innovation becomes pressed into dialogue with spatial, environmental, and urban agendas.The Choreography of Environments builds on this premise to consider the use of ordinary objects from a private residence as lenses into viewing dance innovation.Author Janice Ross posits the Halprins' 1950s iconic mid-century modern home and expansive outdoor dance deck as a hidden archive.She explores four objects from their house and gardens -- staircase, deck, chair, and window --