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Anna Halprin. Photo: Shawncalhoun/Wikipedia Commons. May 26, 2021 at 3:24pm Pioneering choreographer and dancer Anna Halprin died at home in Kentfield, California, on May 24 at the age of one hundred. The news was announced by her daughter Daria Halprin on Facebook. Known for innovating what is now called postmodern dance in the early portion of her wide-ranging career, and for her participatory choreography involving the audience, Halprin devoted her life to “expanding dance so that it’s part of life,” using it to explore social conditions and the importance...

Tony Bravo April 28, 2021Updated: April 28, 2021, 5:30 pm Carlie Wilmans at the David Ireland House on Capp Street Monday, Dec. 14, 2015 in San Francisco. Photo: Nathaniel Y. Downes, The Chronicle When longtime arts philanthropist Carlie Wilmans first stepped into artist David Ireland’s house at 500 Capp Street in the Mission District in 2008, she had no idea she would spend 13 years of her life and more than $6 million in service of its preservation. Beginning in the 1970s, Ireland, a well-known sculptor and conceptual artist, had turned the San Francisco space into a canvas ...

Maria Gaspar, Huong Ngo, Anna Martine Whitehead (Online) Feb. 08, 2021 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 14, 2021 PRESS RELEASE: Register to attend here: https://go.unc.edu/o9CJk Registration will end at 5 pm on February 7. A zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours in advance of the lecture. Sousveillance – watching from below, “the monitoring of authorities by informal networks of regular people, equipped with little more than cellphone cameras, video blogs and the desire to remain vigilant against the excesses of the powers that be.” In this conversation, Whitehead, Gasp...