DEDICATIONS

DEDICATIONS TO ANNA HALPRIN

VIDEO DEDICATIONS TO ANNA: FROM 95 TO 100 YEARS


You may enter a message in memory of Anna

Anna at Sea Ranch August 2019 Photo Credit: Rick Chapman

  1. I feel such gratitude to Anna. She appeared in my life in 1976. I was 34 and her attitude, playfulness, and resilience has affected me the rest of my life.

    She gave me the first push to create “Dance 💃 & Self-Healing with Clay“ and to create twelve year-long Performance 🎭 experiences on the full moon 🌕 called “Anti-Conceptual Pieces (Peaces)” as a reverse commentary on “conceptual art.”

    For one I rented a public swimming pool in Berkeley, heated it up as a giant group hot tub for about 50… then we came back and chained- danced🕺🏻 💃 💃💃💃🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻💃💃💃🕺🏻💃🕺🏻❤️🌕 through the artist’s factory and onto the roof where I had my Studio!!

    Anna Halprin gave me the confidence & permission to self-heal & to allow the creative juices to unfold!!!

    YAHOO!

  2. Time, Lost in the stars. Expanding with the universe. No thing is measurable. Speechless with tears.
    Heart in heaven. Body in the shop (Sufi saying)

  3. I met Anna in the pages of a contact quarterly in a story of her turning 80. I was in my late thirties and determined to dance. My mantra became, “If Anna can dance at eighty, I can dance!” I had the wild pleasure to dance with her in New York three times, learn the planetary dance, meet up with so many and travel out twice to dance with Anna among the red woods on that beautiful stage. Dance for me like many is the deep expression of my most honest, brave self. Thank you for day. It was beautiful and so confirming. I want to echo that it was always so apparent how deeply she loved her children and grandchildren. She is a blessing. Thank you all for your stories and sharing.❤️❤️❤️❤️

  4. Hello, Anna. There really aren’t words to express what you brought to my life, and yet so many others have found the most beautiful words to describe the incredibly rich experience of sharing space with you, seeing you move, hearing your words. You were a force of Nature. You were Nature. And yet you were also fully human, and you accepted all of it. And you accepted all of us. Every moment in your presence, every moment in your studio and on your deck and at Sea Ranch, was such a gift. Thank you so much from the bottom of this open, breaking heart. Love, Darcie

  5. Anna,
    You are unforgettable… you so deeply touched so many in such far-reaching soul-full ways… I remember your hands touching me from shoulder to elbow to fingertips bringing alive the curve from my heart-body traveling out to the fingertips… it was in the wisdom of your touch that you conveyed more than words ever could… and there were so many other moments when pearls dropped out of your every word with utter simplicity and grace… in your dance class your simple suggestions led to the unfolding of seemingly miraculous understanding and insight and human felt complicity… it was a great grace to study with you. Your sense of the comical was absolutely an elixir of life. So much, so distilled, such a gift to have experienced even such a small part of all you had to teach, so enormous. After you joined other stars up in the ether, I wrote a series of poems that I will share with you here in this space… know that if not the words, the vibrations with reach you again… as when I wrote them:

    Never one to trail…

    Anna,

    You were never one to trail blazes…

    You were ablaze!

    A blaze blazing with other blazes

    Aflame! Aglow!

    Kindling a blazing trail

    for so many more to blaze,

    blaze brighter than ever before!

    —LW

    THIS IS YOUR MOON

    for Anna—

    This moon is yours, Anna.

    Take a bow.

    The rays of the moon are shining for you,

    and you make them a little brighter tonight.

    There will be five colors to the moon

    before dawn

    as you shift and flow through the sky.

    You make your grand exit

    on the full “super flower blood moon”

    and complete eclipse.

    You follow the fragrant path

    of Spring blossoms

    all the way home…

    —LW

    Our dance…

    for Anna—

    You a cloud

    dancing

    as you always have

    on a grand scale.

    I mirror your form

    rolling and billowing

    opening

    and turning inward

    tumbling out as I tumble in.

    You showing me the grandness

    of this endless dance

    that grows as the universe does.

    Folding and unfolding

    embracing

    holding it all…

    The arms of the galaxies

    are opening now…

    Your arms are made of space

    of ether

    as they always have been

    yet it’s so transparent now…

    You are space dancing

    just

    as you always have.

    —LW

    And finally under the arc of the influence of this sacred time in which you stepped forward into a new dimension, this poem:

    Step forward

    Yes, even when you have forgotten yourself,

    you are a mandala, you are a snowflake,

    you are a prism, you are a fractal

    shaping the light coming through you

    like no other.

    Step forward

    into the shadows

    or out of them

    knowing that even the shadows

    reveal the form of the light

    that pours forth

    from your life.

    Step forward

    following your bliss,

    following your burning curiosity,

    following your nose

    as you seek out the fragrance

    of the secret rose,

    of the hidden treasure that you are.

    Step forward

    following your in-tuition,

    the inward sense

    where you find yourself

    on the map of existence

    dancing your wandering dance

    twisting and turning

    across mountains

    through valleys

    over plains

    your toes pressing

    into the moist sands of long beaches.

    Step forward

    and let the light move

    through you.

    Step forward.

    You are

    like no other.

    —Lorena Wolfman

    With love and the deepest admiration,

    Lorena

  6. Thank you Thank you Anna for your Courage in the Dance from the mountains to the sea to the streets! I learned so much from you about the power of Gesture towards PEACE, thank you!

  7. The dancer and the dance are one.
    I dreamed.
    You said, “I will show you the secrets.”
    I danced.
    And the Universe opened up.

    Thanks for being with us, Anna!

  8. Anna, your life has been extra-ordinary and fulfilling and for sure found its completion in your last moments of inner dance – this inner and outer expression of energy and vision will continue in all of us.

    Thank you Anna.

  9. Meeting and working with Anna had such an impact on this jaded New York Artist. She opened me up and humbled we in a way that was a complete surprise. She is magic and unforgettable and has transformed us all.

  10. Dear Anna, You always made everyone feel like they are a special friend and there’s room for many, many more. You made me feel like you see me from simple to complex and back, and invited me to see you the in same way. Art and life are one, which is also how I grew up. With all the experimenting and letting go, classes with you (and Tamalpa in general) were the safest space I have ever been in to go into those hidden places. And make art about it! And then, have a meal. I carry your wisdom and friendship with me in my heart for all of my time, and maybe we’ll meet as fractals of light in the future. Thank you.

  11. Anna Halprin, thank you for showing me that it is possible to dance forever.

    Beauty, grace, the dance alive in bones and breath, in nature,
    in learning to fall and dance and listen to the call of deep engagement.
    Celebrating a life well lived, opening our hearts to pain and beauty blossoms,
    we swirl through you and breathe your exhale and chant love, love love.
    For this planetary dance,
    I offer a poem, written by Merritt Malloy that sounds to me like Anna Halprin’s call
    from beyond…

    LOVE
    adapted from a poem by
    Merrit Malloy.

    When I die
    If you need to weep
    Cry for someone
    Walking the streets beside you.

    And when you need me
    Put your arms around the others
    And give them what you need
    To give me.

    You can love me most by letting
    Hands touch hands, and
    Souls touch souls.

    You can love me most by
    Sharing your joys and
    Multiplying your good deeds.

    You can love me most by
    Letting me live in your eyes
    And not in your mind.

    And when you say a prayer for me
    Remember:
    love doesn’t die; people do.
    So when all that’s left of me is love,
    Give me away.

  12. Anna touched my Life in profound ways. The way of ART, the way of NATURE, the way of SELF, the way of COMMUNITY, the way of LEGACY. Returning Home, is what she helped me to do, and to do it with AUTHENTICITY and ART. Thank-you for the JOY, HUMOR, FUN and UPLIFTING ways you celebrated with us! DANCE! From one Artist to Another, I felt the synergy of Creativity in Life and that this is an inspired way to Live in Truth.
    I was born into a Family of Artists and I am full of Gratitude for this. To find Anna, was like looking in a mirror, seeing with every sense, my artistic Tamapla family and yet that reflection held all of my layers, seeing my True Self. Emerging again and again. I remember the egg dance she had us do time and time again, and each time I emerged with more knowing of myself and more creativity. I learned the depth of my creativity and how it related to my inner being. Her Legacy lives in the Hearth of my Heart, Forever. Thank-you Anna…

  13. With her, I learned to land in this human body … Anna showed me the way to make it an exquisite place to be. She taught me to move and dance and celebrate the nature in me, the stillness in me, the life force in me.

    Anna gave me a space in which to open myself at a sensory level to the elements of the natural world and let myself be molded by them, intimately, and in this way sink deeply into the knowledge that I belong to the web to the broader life … bodily experiecing the One.

    I came to Tamalpa when I was 22 years old. After a childhood marked by death and orphanhood, a little piece of me always wandered in not feeling, non-presence … non-life.

    My time with Anna and all the powerful beings at the Tamalpa Institute brought me to life again. Going home in my own body and letting myself be enveloped by the creative process, they created an energy similar to light, a spark … a ray that broke parliament and connected me with life.

  14. For me, Janice Ross’s wonderful lecture said it all. I feel I owe so much to you, Anna. I’m a dance/movement therapist because of you and seeing your film Celebration of Us 50 years ago. Your concepts fill my work. So many people benefit from your brilliance. And I’m just one of the flames that flicker your light on the world. I keep sharing about you with so many people I know. The wonderful art, humor, abundance that I experienced every time I danced with you. Or got to watch you with astonishment. I’m filled with inspiration constantly, and love the way your whole life was dance. I felt so validated by you and it persists…my values are so interconnected with yours. I dedicate the Planetary Dance to your legacy, to my commitment to keep it alive in my work and in my heart, and to contribute to the healing of the world via this magical dance. Thank you, Anna, thank you.

  15. OMG, my heart pours our to you all during this time! Although I never worked with Anna in person or online or had any interaction with her personally, she, herself, and her work inspired me immensely and taught me how to SEE energy in posture and spirit form! I am SO grateful for the work she imbued us with and sending so many blessings and so much healing and Love your way!

  16. dearest anna

    everyone who you’ve
    ever touched will
    never forget you.

    those that have
    heard your words
    or held you will
    never be the same.

    Anna is the Mother tree in the forest at Sea Ranch. A tree rooted firmly in fertile soil. A tree that has withstood the test of time. She grew and extended her branches all over the world. I am proud to be a small limb on that tree. Thank you Anna for growing strong and creating a legacy that will persist for generations. Thank you for opening my eyes and drawing out my body. I owe you my heart and my every move.

  17. We Become young Again
    again
    we
    Open and Raise
    – celebrando –
    may our energies
    merge and dance. through
    heavens
    & the solid rock beneath
    our feet vibrate and turn.
    turn them to us
    turn us together
    to teach and learn
    sharing
    the gifts. that which
    hurt, harmed, brought joy, and stood us up again.
    up walking with face in
    the wind
    to greet
    the rain and
    see your eyes.
    <3

    Anna, I never learned from you. You taught my parents, and your inquiry and influence permeates my life. I thank you.

  18. I was fortunate enough to meet your work in ritual and movement in dance anthropology. It led me to an immersive weekend exploring the life/art process which has stayed with me all these years later. Life brings many twists and turns which I express in movement, art and poetry. Thank you for all that you were and will continue to be through your work as it dances on, with fondest love

  19. Thank you, Anna,

    Thank you, Anna, for teaching me to walk in opposition, for teaching my hips to swivel, for expanding my rib cage to give my heart room, protecting it at the same time.

    For body memories come alive.

    Thank you for seeing my drawings.

    For welcoming me among women.

    For letting me help you climb the 103 steps
    from your studio to your home, using my hands against the small of your back, up the next step.

    Thank you for guiding me into the sacred space of dance. For calling me, who doesn’t know ballet, ballroom, tango, hip-hop, waltz, or flamenco, for calling me a dancer,
    For leading me into the dance.

    Love,

    Daniel

  20. When I walked into the big yurt at Esalen in the summer of 2013 and Anna invited us all to move, I came home.

    She was teaching dance in a way that I always sought, but never thought possible.

    Anna’s teachings opened doors to my source of creativity and a deep sense of connection to nature.

    In 2014-2015 I did the life/art training at Tamalpa and enjoyed the wonderful Mountain Home Space.
    Thank you Anna for setting a great example.

    I am forever and grateful and promise to use and spread this beautiful legacy.

  21. Anna, I will forever be grateful for you having introduced me to teachings and methods that opened me up in a way I have never known. Through my body and art.

  22. I am forever grateful to Anna for the extraordinary dance energy and creative inspiration she brought to the Tamalpa Trainings I undertook in 1983/4.
    I especially remember the way that the mountain, the sky, the eagles, the Mountain Home Studio and our dances were constantly being interwoven. In this way the dances grew, we all grew and respect and love of the land were enhanced.

    There are too many elements of those trainings to mention, all of which proved important as I moved into dance performance making and teaching. Perhaps I can summarise by reflecting on the way Anna encouraged us to both travel inwards without losing touch with our contexts, the wider world and the natural environment.

    The trainings were a joy and the fat file we were encouraged to keep has indeed lasted a lifetime with little moments resurfacing as a reminder of a richly collaborative and wide ranging set of courses.

    It was with huge pleasure that I met with Anna both at her home to interview her and to have a really fun trawl through her photos for a book. The photos brought back so many memories and lots of laughter. Meeting in Paris too for the performances there was inspiring. Typical Anna, new work being developed in the moment and older pieces refined and edited for a new place and people.

    Huge thanks to Anna for all that she has brought to the dance world and I will miss her greatly. Libby

  23. 19th of July 2021:
    It is 21 years ago now, since you and Daria changed and inspired my life deeply.
    As a Tamalpa Germany Webinar Teacher now, I felt honored to adjust my online class short after your day of death (you always spoke out things how they are) in order to be with the loss of you in our Tamalpa community. In this class I took your picture off the altar and danced a duett with you. You seemed so close. My hands raised up and you were looking down on me from the photo and maybe in real, too! As I looked down on myself, I discovered your name that you have signed on my planetary dance shirt right on my belly and the thought came to me that you’re not only in my heart, but also on and in my belly. As I often catch myself using the phrases in my classes that you used to say to your students. (I speak them out of my belly.)
    And in that moment I strongly felt how you live on in all the people you inspired so deeply! You live on in all of us!
    I feel so blessed and grateful to have learned so much from you and share your life-work with others now.

  24. Hi Anna, There are no words to express the gratitude I have for you, your work, Daria and the whole Tamalpa experience. It was the hardest year of my life and the most rewarding. This training with you set a new course for my life. I wish I could have seen you again, especially as you aged, so I could tell you in person….just how amazing all that you brought to the world is. Thank you Anna…may you travel well! You will be missed!

  25. So much love and gratitude for this Woman. I met Anna’s work long before I met her. Her work put all the pieces together as an artist and dancer who was insatiable with personal growth, healing and spiritual renewal. I remember when I finally got to meet her and dance on the infamous redwood forest deck! She was so magical. So grounded in her body, so humble and completely curious and submerged in the power and intelligence of movement and all of our bodies. Anna I imagine you are dancing through the layers of time color an space… I can see your smile like a beam of dancing light. I am so grateful for your life here on earth. That I, by the grace of the goddess found your work and my way to you to meet you. Of course I wish I had more time with you but I count my blessings that I had what I had. You changed my life. May your legacy life on strong and embodied through all of time and may you dear one soar to hights unfathomable to the human body mind… Lead the way! LOVE to you! Thank you for you great service to earth.

  26. Dearest inspiring amazing Anna,
    You have always been – and will be – an inspiration to us all as you continue beam your glorious love and light to all. Deep heartfelt gratitude always. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE to you!!!

  27. I met Anna in 2018 on a workshop in Esalen. Her spirit and the ensemble of angels she brought with her, was a rebirth for my dancing soul, and will always give me light, to be shared for the love, for the healing and for the sake of it.

  28. You and your priceless friendship and inspiring journey are in my heart as long as I dance upon his Earth, and beyond.

  29. Dearest Anna,
    Your life was such a beautiful dance. It was a dance of joy, despair, curiosity, compassion…All that can be felt in the human experience you DANCED it.

    Happy 101st Birthday. I’m grateful to you for encouraging me to dance the dances that I needed to embody.

  30. Dear Anna

    The dance for Life/Art and Healing was your life’s journey.
    Your pure commitment and dedication has spread so many fertile seeds.
    This very seed has grown strong in me.
    With the “Healing Arts Therapy”, I found my personal format bringing Healing and Art into my life and the life of many others.

    You have been much more than a teacher and mentor for me. You have walked/danced what you believed. You healed yourself from Cancer, and became the true model of how we are able to heal body – mind and soul. I will carry on this work, – the so important work you have initiated.

    My love and gratitude are embracing you.

    Elisabeth Guentert Bay

  31. Dear Anna, thank you for a lifetime of inspiration, of breaking the rules, for our ‘duets’ at 1977 Association of Humanistic Psychology Association national conference, the Halprin & Halpern experience, and for the more than several folks who thought we were married, and your chuckle when I told you that. I’m sure you’re dancing with angel wings now, onward to the Light.

  32. Dear Anna!

    I remember the time of my first Tamalpa Training, when in the evening I used to ride the bike from San Anselmo to Kentfield and then get a ride up the hill to Mountain Home Studio…
    this evening class was one of the most exciting moments in my life and always full of amazement and surprise.. as you were to me!

    You taught me so much about scoring, the RSVP Cycle, performing, movement…

    Your immense creative passion was like a huge „shamanic aura“ that touched me and everybody else around you and opened me up to a deep understanding of how creativity is generated.

    I deeply thank you Anna for being such a wonderful, loving and humorous teacher, and for much more!

    You informed my movement, my art and my life and I cherish all the moments in your presence…

    With deep gratitude, sadness and love, Gabriella

  33. TWAMEVA MAATHA CHA PITHAA TWAMEVA, TWAMEVA BANDHUSCHA SAKAA TWAMEVA, TWAMEVA VIDHYA DHRAVINAM TWAMEVA,TWAMEVA SARVAM MAMADEVA DEVAA. MEANING OF THE SANSKRIT VERSE: THOU ART MY MOTHER, MY FATHER, YOU ARE MY RELATION, AND FRIEND. YOU ARE ALL KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM, YOU ARE ALL OMNIPRESENT. IBOW DOWN TO YOU. A LITTLE PRAYER OFFERED BEFORE LEARNING ANYTHING. NAMASTE.

  34. Dearest Anna – Deep bow of gratitude to the artist, the teacher, the woman, the trail blazer in you. You paved the way for so many of us lovers of dance to think and create outside the box – ever challenging us to make art that matters. To dance with feeling, with meaning and purpose, to marry Life and Art and Soul. YOU mattered to me. What you shared with us all, matters – has changed us all. Thank you from my heart for the gift of your time and attention – for seeing me, believing in me, encouraging me so generously. Your legacy lives on inside each of us as we continue to dance, teach, create and perform. You are with me whenever I roll down a sand dune in slow motion, or quietly dissolve into the forest, bathe in her sounds. I feel your bones, deep in my bones. I stand proudly on your shoulders. Thank you for walking this earth with us, for teaching and supporting us. Rest well now. May Peace enfold you.

  35. Dear Anna,
    You touched me so deeply. I am forever grateful to you and your most beautiful essence. I thank you for your bountiful gifts. With gratitude and love, Adele

  36. For Anna:

    She moved under trees, like wind through the leaves
    I felt I was blessed to have found her.
    With feathers and grace I saw the dance in her face
    She held the world in a spell all around her.
    I took it all in from the sidelines…

    You saw in me, more than I knew how to believe
    You made me see it, you made me believe it
    You let me be who I wanted to be
    You gave me my dream

    Love from Lucia Comnes, Lucca, Italy

  37. Dear Anna, Thank you for telling me that my dancing is stunning and excellent! And, thank you for permitting me to use that quote on my website! Your contribution to my life is beyond words.

  38. Blessed are you Anna for your inspiring existence. For contributing, in various ways, to bringing me back Home, to the Home of Being where I feel, see and imagine myself with all possible colors.
    Thank you for the healing paths, for the reminders that movement and dance are a language that transforms and transports us, that self-expression is precious and offers a sweet dialogue with the core.
    Thank you for your joy, for letting me dance on your deck, watched while you work, thank you for the Planetary Dance, for opening a door for me to continue working with Art for connecting it to Life, thank you for your forest and birds and trees that I was able to touch, thanks for your stories, for your humor and your voice on behalf of so many others who were lacking one.
    Thank you for Art and Life with a Meaning and Purpose.
    I admire and honor you with my heart, with my body and it continues to be in you, even now that you are flying through the Universe, that I look for inspiration when I need it.
    Thank you for having seen me as I am and having touched my own Beauty with your gaze, with your words and your Movement.
    I want to continue transmitting your teachings, your legacy, our art and also the inspiration of your life.

    With Love for you dearest Anna Halprin

  39. Dear Anna, as I stepped through your kitchen doorway for our first meeting, you greeted me with open arms and called me by name, in an embrace infused with the scent of madrone trees and the warmth of sunlight. My footsteps brought with me a symphony of echoes from your dance deck, absorbed through my skin, into my spirit, echoes held deeply, eternally by the grain of the trees danced with and upon. On this day of days, you were 95, and with sparkling love, led me into explorations to nurture my personal practices, so that my giving could forever be an extension of yours, indefatigable. Your manna powers my self-love so that I may pass my learnings forward, ever sustainably. You invited my spirit to interweave with yours, and still you are with me as I wend my way in helping people with incurable diseases draw on personal memory to discern their voices and expressivity in their own movement language. Anna, your presence will never dim, as it lives on in continual life, growing and expanding, whispering from limb to limb amongst the trees, from limb to limb in oneself, and onwards amongst humanity. Thank you Anna for gifting the world with your living legacy.

  40. Dear Anna, you are like mother of earth for me. You are like mother earth’s embrace of a seed, its germination, its support in all four seasons. It was a great opportunity for me to be your student.
    I will always remember your power to express your creativity sensitively to situations in the world. You taught me art and movement create changes and transform.
    with love and gratitude

  41. I loved the way Anna inspired so many to dance! I have been a dancer for 60 yrs. and always learned something new in regards to moving my body safely, beautifully & creatively. She inspired me with how easy she helped students with her explicit wording & directions! Mostly, I will miss her friendship, her little girl smile and laughter, her love and her beauty! Anna, THANK YOU! Till we meet again, dancing amongst the stars…..

  42. Dearest Anna,
    The depth and honesty of your movement and your innovative spirit have impacted me profoundly – I was particularly touched moving with you at Sea Ranch. As my first movement teacher you were instrumental in shaping my path in somatics. I am certain your work will live on through the many you touched. With deep gratitude.

  43. A love remembrance of working with dear Anna and her multi cultural group in early seventies at SF Dancer’s Workshop and Company.
    Kaddosh Adonai, rituals and self portraits were so creative and powerful.
    I wish all a brave mourning and the will to perpetuate the spirit of art in movement inspired by her great impulse.
    http://www.dussoix.ch Geneva, Switzerland

  44. You are more than a teacher to me.
    You taught me to believe in the power of art and movement.
    You taught me by your life, passion and how you embodied it in everyday life.
    .
    “I love how you say that art and movement is your best friend.”
    “Everybody can move.”
    “Make it simple but real.”
    .
    I have to say that you have changed my life and my spirit.
    .
    Still hard to find the word for me to express how sad I feel for your passing.
    .
    Rest in Peace Anna, your guidance and what you taught will be with me forever.

  45. I studied with Anna at four of her summer courses (1960, 1962, 1963, and 1967–when my last name was Markson). I also had contact with her later when she was a guest at Jacob’s Pillow and at locations in California. I consider her one of the most important influences on my life in dance–my understanding, my choreography, my teaching, and everything. I loved her and her work very much and appreciated what she had created and what I had learned from her. She is a continuing inspiration for me.

  46. My deepest respect, love and admiration to Anna’s incredible Spirit and the work it/you came to do in this lifetime. Eternal gratitude for your medicine and inspiration.

  47. Short and sweet – your rebellious truth-making has led us into new domains of consciousness and connection. I am forever grateful. May we keep your many trajectories going with your name living on for an eternity.

  48. Walking with Anna…

    Anna Halprin’s spirit left her body this week. On the day that I heard the news, I had to be among the trees. This land in Bedford, MA reminds me vaguely of Kentfield, CA where her Mountain Home Studio has cradled countless artists in discovery. There, I learned to come home to my body, and in doing so, sink deeply into the knowing that I belong to the larger web of life. She encouraged me in public – in performance, even – to do what I had always done in private, on solo wilderness retreats: open myself on a sensory level to the elements of the natural world and be shaped by them, intimately.

    I had to walk when I heard the news. I had to feel the primal, pedestrian movements of my arms swinging with each step: right shoulder spiraling subtly forward as my left foot lands on the trail in front of me, then my left arm accompanying my right leg forward, and so on. Once I started, I couldn’t stop. I had to keep walking, sounding this ancient drum beat of human feet on the sentient Earth. An image of the Planetary Dance bubbled up… each step a prayer for the Earth, and for healing among people, and between people and the Earth.

    Then, I looked up to see sunlight streaming through branches. Anna has been, is, and will always be a Sun in my world – an elemental force of nature emanating light, warmth, and life-affirming creativity. I spread my arms overhead. The space under my collarbones widened.

    At that moment, my dogs splashed into the water. I remember Anna saying that she loved children and dogs, the bounce in their steps making unbridled vitality visible. I watched my dogs lunge, wiggle, and glide through space and smiled, sharing Anna’s joy.

    So, Anna… Here’s to you, and to the trees and the dogs and the sun in the sky. In communion with the splendor of these bodies in motion, your spirit lives on.

    P.S. I envision a dance coming into form on this bridge in July, to honor the two pioneering grandmothers who initiated me into the wonders of creative embodiment and are no longer in human form (Anna and Emilie Conrad). And a book perhaps… Stay tuned…

  49. Oh Anna I saw Breath Made Visible, signed up for your class, abandoned all that ballet had twisted into me, freed my body/soul and spent brilliant Thursday mornings in your marvelous company. And now your teaching new steps to the angels. Blowing kisses to you skyward!

  50. I am grateful for the teaching offered that have shaped not only my carrear but mostly my way of being in the world. I learned to dance my feelings and to to simply be myself. My body discovered the freedom of being natural and the great joy of dance. now I work as a dance movement therapyst and psychologist and I learned to live life as a great ongoing dance!Gratitude from the heart

  51. Dearest Anna,
    I wanted to come to meet you two years ago from Geneva. And then I did not because of life events.
    I am a dancer. I discover your life, your way to teach, to be into the world, to dance, lately. I had to do a research for a project about the futur and about people that made a step beside one day and made things move forward. And immediately I choose you. I had to go deeper into your life, listening your interview, reading a lot about you. It was a way to meet you. Not the best, but it did something to me very important and very strong. I am transforming inside because of you.
    Thank you with all my heart. Have a very nice trip wherever you are !

  52. I touch the earth every day in gratitude to Anna, one of my seven root teachers. I have many wonderful stories about Anna and I want to share something that happened in 2005. Anna was to receive the Pioneering Award in Integrative Medicine from the Institute of Health and Healing at CPMC.When Mala and I walked into the foyer of the ball room where the banquet was being held, I saw Anna standing there and went over to her. She took one look at me and said, “Jerome, you’re still alive!”
    Many years later she revealed to me that the reason she had stopped the classes at MGH was that too many people had died.
    She was so important in my recovery from muscle invasive bladder cancer that I honor her every day.

  53. Dear Anna,
    I had the honor of dancing with you and learning from you in your beautiful studio. I hold deep respect and admiration for you and the difference you made in the world through teaching others to dance.
    With Love,
    Barbara

  54. Beloved Anna, I met you waaaay back in the early 70’s at the Dance Therapy Conference in NYC!!! I was a young student at the time and was in awe of your beauty and your willingness to Be the Magical Person You Are and Share that/you with all of us!!!! I still see you leading us all dancing thru the lobby of the hotel with sooooo much Joy, Grace, Delight, and Childlike FUN!!!! Thank you for all your Gifts to me and to the fields of Movement and Dance!!!! 💜👏💜

  55. Dear Anna Banana

    What can I possible write that will even begin to express what an essential part of my life you have been for the past 48 years? There has been so much written about your work, mastery, personality, spirit, how you have influence so many dancers through the years, and your beauty both inside and out. How you have influenced, touched and changed people from all over the world and how so many of them have touched more people and on and on. I would be both stating the obvious and redundant. So i will share some of mine, and maybe yours as well, memories.

    I remember so clearly in 1972 walking up the stairs at 321 Divisadero in San Francisco to meet you. At the time I had been teaching Yoga and taking dance classes but had no idea of who you were or how my life was about to make an unimaginable turn and never be the same. A mutual friend had arranged the meeting and one of the first things you said to me was “Are you a Yemenite Jew?” I had no idea what that was or meant but I laughed and you did too. You followed that with an invitation to do a two week summer workshop and I was off and running.

    I became your student and after a year of working with you it evolved to you mentoring me. You brought me to all your classes and workshops for a year and had me take notes. It was then you told me something that would influence and shape my work for the rest of my days…”I want you to study and understand what I am teaching and my work but I don’t want you to copy me. I want you to integrate it in to what you know and what you will learn. And then for you to make it your work. I want you to create with what I give you.”

    The third year you began allowing me to teach. Both at the San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop and quite to my amazement at the time, ( and still now when I think about it), you would periodically tell me you were tired or had something else to do and send me off to teach your class. I remember how when I would announce to the class that you couldn’t make it and I was going to teach the response would range from disappointment on people’s faces to “OH NO’s”, to “we came to work with Anna not you.” Later I realised you were giving me lessons in humility and developing confidence.

    When San Francisco Dancers Workshop moved to Tamalpa, or Mountain Home Studio, you brought me with you and put me on the faculty of the training program. That was such an honour and privilege. Close to the same time you were invited to teach a series of workshops in Europe and didn’t want to go. You said you were going to send me. OMG! The bravado, trust, and confidence you had to think that I knew something and that it was a good idea for me to go teach in Europe and represent you and your work. I was totally shocked, afraid, felt privileged and couldn’t believe it…but I didn’t hesitate and thought maybe you knew something I didn’t and jumped at the opportunity.

    The door you were slowly opening for me all of a sudden was flung wide open…a door, and doors, that completely shaped my life. Right now I am writing this sitting in a small town in the English Dartmoor National Park. I am quarantining as I am get ready to teach my 42nd year in Europe. How could I possibly express to you all you have done for me, meant to me, and helped shaped me?

    I could go on and on with stories of our student/teacher relationship, your mentoring me, as friends, colleagues, and how you became (in my mind) my surrogate mother. But for now I will finish with two special memories,

    1) of all the times sitting on your pack patio under the shade of the pine trees having lunch between classes. Talking, and most wonderfully hearing you laugh at my stories and jokes and me laughing at yours. Of sharing ideas and information about movement and teaching. And sharing memories of students who had passed through the studios of San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop and Tamalpa.

    2) We were in Paris preparing for the huge performance of “Intensive Care” at the Centre Pompidou and you wanted to share some music that you thought could be used in “Enroute” a piece in the streets that was a tribute to one aspect of your work you were doing when I first met you. It took place in the streets on the way from the Hotel to the Pompidou each day before the performance.

    You wanted me to listen to a Tom Waits song called “Big in Japan.” We were in your hotel room standing and listening to the song. I remember I was looking out the window, I heard a funny sound and looked over and you were lying on the bed not moving. I freaked out and thought you had a heart attack or some other unspeakable occurrence. I rushed over to the bed and you sat up and said “I was rehearsing for the death scene in Intensive Care.” I had almost crapped in my pants but when you looked at my face and burst out laughing I had no choice but to laugh too.

    Now the reality is your presence has transitioned back into the Absolute. Your life was lived fully and in a way that is an example for all of us. You live on in all of us who were blessed, inspired and touched by you. I bring you into my meditations everyday and send positive thoughts that your transition back to the Absolute will be another one of your unique dances that only you can do!

    I watch you dance
    in the clouds that pass by
    the wind moving through the trees
    rivers flowing
    waves rolling in
    and receding back into the ocean

    Oh God Anna I miss you.

  56. Dedication to Anna
    From Joy Cosculluela
    SF, CA

    When I think of dance, I have many stories, from the patriarchal world of ballet, to the modern dance of Martha Graham, to folk dances from my country. But when I think of dance that honors who I am as a complex changing individual, I think of Anna. When I think of dance as something that everyone can do, when dance serves as a healing social force in community, I think of Anna. When I think of improvisation and experimentation, I think of Anna. When I think of scoring and intentions for a performance, I think of Anna. When I dance with the trees, the birds, and the ocean, I think of Anna and the rituals that have reconnected me to the earth, our home. I think of how my life changed and how my dances have changed. I am profoundly grateful for these gifts she has shared.

    Anna opened the door for me to experience and appreciate my unique movement expression, and how to dance from my sensing body, my sensuality, and not be afraid of it. She would always talk about our “potential” as we all listened and moved from the deepest cores of our bodies. She would always remind us that we had the potential to expand our range of movement, like “learning to play different scales on the piano”, or drawing with “different colors from a box of crayons.”

    When I heard about her dancing her cancer, when she told stories about Watts, when she staged Parades and Changes, Planetary Dance, when we danced with the trees and the wind and the sun, I said here is a force of nature who lives her life as art.

    When I was starting my work as an artistic director of my own group and presented a rough showing of my piece to Anna, I was so scared to get her feedback. She shared with me a quote by Andy Warhol: “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” Yes, Anna!

    Anna’s legacy is so wide… as wide as when I open my arms…. but then I keep opening my arms again, wider… I open my arms wider….

    Deep gratitude to you dear Anna for your everlasting spirit that guides us, roots us to the earth, lets us fly free. My offering is to keep exploring, keep making art, keep these dances alive, to dedicate my performance work as a healing force in the world.

  57. I received so many blessings in life, and meeting you at the tender age of 24 was one of the most significant. I cherish the many memories of my time with you. Here is one: While sitting together at Sea Ranch many years ago, you shared with me that one of the reasons you started teaching was to have someone to dance with. Thank you, Anna, for dancing with me. It was a lot of fun and has shaped my life in profoundly meaningful ways.
    Just look at all the tributes by the many people you have touched! May all this love and gratitude accompany you as you fold back into the Great Mystery. I honor you by sharing our dance with as much of the world as will have me. I love you to the moon and back!

  58. My dearest Anna,
    I fell in love the moment I saw you walk into the dance studio.
    You woke something up in us students, moving on the floor.
    Woke us up to ourselves.

    You modeled the chutzpah to be an artist in the fullest sense of the word: to live life with passion, beauty, immense curiosity, creating your own path despite the ‘rules.’ To engage with EXPERIENCE fully — and to play with it, shape it, create it.

    There could not be a clearer turning point in my adult life than meeting you. You have inspired, taught, led, mentored, and opened new possibilities for me and so many others all around the world: to make art that matters and to live life as art.

    I will always remember your stories, your incredible style, your genuine curiosity and interest in people, your silly faces, cheekiness, and your deep desire for peace in the world.

    Not to mention your dances.

    Love you. Thank you.
    Let’s keep dancing.

  59. FOR YOU ANNA

    A teacher by nature. You loved your students. Every student was your friend.

    A true beginners mind. You could teach a same class a 100 times, and a 100 times you would do it with the same passion and enthusiasm, as if it was the first time.

    All bodies were welcome in your dance, everyone was celebrated in their uniqueness– all sizes, ages, types, and abilities– Your dance was a dance for All.

    A true revolutionary, reclaiming life as a stage and breaking down the borders between dancers and no dancers, between audience and performers, between Life and Art.

    A community builder, a bridge maker. Connecting people from all over the world. All human expressions found their home in your Mountain Home Studio– united, together, speaking one same language: the language of the arts.

    A force of nature and a nature lover. You danced with nature and nature danced with you. Tree, Sky, Stone, Ocean, Mountain, Bird– your most intimate dance partners.

    Fun, vital, curious. Brilliant woman.

    Experimental, courageous, dedicated, unique. A true artist.

    A dancer, an environmentalist, a teacher, a therapist…

    It’s hard to define you, Anna Halprin.

    I will never forget a conversation we had, some years ago during one of our lunches together at your Mountain Home. I asked you: Anna if you were to define yourself in one sentence what would you say? You thought for a while, and then said: I am a dancer and a teacher who is committed to life.

    That says it all~

    My heart is full of love and gratitude for you. You taught me to love my body. You reminded me about my right of expression and the joy of it. With you I became a dancer!

    Your legacy is alive with all of us. Your dance will continue touching and transforming people’s life.

    Fly free like a bird, in an eternal and joyful dance –May your soul rest in peace.

    I will love you always dear friend.

    Rosario

  60. Rest in Power my dear mentor, grandmother and friend Anna!
    I am so honored to come across my path with yours in this life time.
    So unique human being, so hard to put you into one word. you were everything and everyone!

    Witnessing by you was the greatest lessons for me in Art and life.
    “What are you dedicating for”
    This is what I got more clearly from you , when I started knowing and learning and working with you. Your life with creativity, clarity, determination, generosity and commitment with full of passion, humor, joy and love for the people is clear to me! And your almost 101 years of life is the proof of that.

    Your every moment of creative life that you shared through art, teaching and communal planetary dance was truly gift that you gave to so many of us and also taught me what types of teacher and human being I want to become.
    Thank you Anna~~~ seeing your true love of Dance.
    You really meant it! whole your life, you never stopped dancing through your body, words and through harmonica!

    Dance!!!, as you said “ Dance is mother of all the arts.”, “Body is our instrument”
    how we create art through our body is the messages, stories and dedication for connecting to ourselves to others to ancestors and beyond.

    I will continue my path with your spirit Anna! I will keep dancing, singing and drumming with others, lands, nature, all the beings and planet.

    Through Art, teaching and community ceremonies and rituals. This is also how I also connect with you, Anna. Ritual keepers.
    Here I am with people are continuing that ritual to keep going through generation to generations with our dedications.

    I love you so deeply, my bird song will be company with you and whenever I sing a bird song I imagine you are dancing with me and dancing with all.

    Love you my dearest teacher, grandmother and friend Anna.

  61. My time dancing in the woods, 2005-2010, cracked me open in the gentlest way. My body understands what my voice cannot express. Dear Anna you live through your students every day. Thank you for your vision, your compassion, your persistence.

  62. Rest in peace dearest Anna. Your mentorship, creative healing spirit, daring art-making, irreverent sense of humor, deep somatic wisdom, and joyful friendship have forever changed my life. Through working with you, I found the pathway to a sense of embodied freedom, the ability to connect with all the parts of myself with acceptance, value, and compassion, to connect to a rich community of fellow art-makers, and to connect to the healing spirit of nature. Having the opportunity to study and perform with you has left an indelible mark on who I am, and will continue to have its affects throughout the rest of my life. It is with profound gratitude, admiration, and respect that I send my tender love with your spirit. I love you Anna, and you will live forever on in my heart, my embodied expressions, and in the lives of all the people you have touched. Thank you so much for all that you have offered the world with your generous, creative, indomitable spirit.

  63. Happy 100th birth-day dearest Anna Halprin Artist
    ! May your day be filled with the wisdom of the earth, the beauty of the light, the freshness of the night, the music of the water, the dance of the trees and the dilightfull feeling of beeing alive on this fullish day of your 100th birthday! I feel very blessed to have met you 20 years ago and that you have since then shaped my dance path like the river shapes it’s bed by flowing. Precisely it is your inspiration, freedom, sens of creation, perceiving the human potential, trusting its transformation potential, colorful sparks of an ever renewed inspiration, inventing new ways, confronting new ways, and never giving up… It’s precisely those color in your dance creativity that shaped me, that defined me with a every lasting desire of pursuing it. It’s more than you, and it’s you! And I loved it! “I still love it! Everyday as a teacher and a dancer and a creator, a leader or a follower, I call it!
    Thank you to life that we meet!!!
    And we are still today creating together 💗☀️🍀🦅
    I love you Anna

  64. I am dancing for a world of peace, justice and care for all beings, for a mass awakening of humanity into greater love and unity, into our best selves.

    Thank you for holding this powerful space.

  65. Dear Anna,

    Happy Birthday to you! You’ve been such an inspiration for me since I met you back in 1999 at the Body Wisdom Conference in CA. Thank you for accepting every invitation I could muster up for you to come teach for my students and colleagues over these many years since. Each time you awakened our earth bodies and creativity with so much passion and joy! Your vision of the vital role of dance and community in our lives is still so needed in these times. What an amazing 100 years so far. 🙂

    Thank you for our friendship and all the movement memories that live in me still. May we each carry the torch of your inspiration into all we do, to move toward a more compassionate world.

    Love, Susan

  66. Happy 💯 Anna!! Somehow, the post I wrote from your 95th bday ended up here, so I am reposting your 💯 birthday dedication. In gratitude, the celebration continues for your lifelong sharing of wisdom, guidance, creativity, movement, transformation, compassion, healing, skill, empowerment, and grace through the life-art process. Continuing to wish you longevity, happiness, wellbeing, ease, kindness, and light. Blessings, Amy I.

  67. Happy 100th Birthday Anna Halprin!! Thank you for sharing your wisdom, passion, creativity, guidance, inspiration, healing, compassion, and skill through your lifelong pioneering work with the Life-Art Process. Wishing you many more years on this Gaia blessed with wellbeing, love, healing, and peace.

  68. Oh Anna, How amazing were those months of the Tamalpa Training in the early 80s.
    Every day I use something I learned with you.
    Every class i teach includes something you awakened.
    I know my body better and I appreciate nature more deeply because of your perspective.
    And I continue to be inspired by your wonderful embodiment of your own work.
    thank you so much, and I hope you relished your 100th Birthday.

  69. In addition to the birthday wishes, I left above I would like to state the dedication I would have made if I were able to dance yesterday. I dedicate my dance to my Aunt Phyllis, my mother’s sister, who died in 2018 at age 97. With her in mind I hope that all women are able to live and express themselves fully.

  70. Dearest Anna,
    How wonderfully braided your life and art, how eloquent and engaged, how generous and spirited! You delight the world with your gifts of body and spirit. By being utterly yourself, you teach us how to move through this world with a sense of wonder, wholeness.
    I treasure the time we spent together planning for your residency at Stanford so many years ago, preparing to create 3 Myths for that community. It was a journey towards the rediscovery of the heart of art-making, life-changing for me. My birthday wish for you is that all your days bring you fullness of being, that love infuses all your words and actions, that your deep understanding of the world and our common and complicated humanity helps us to evolve to a place of harmony with nature and ourselves, together, connected, whole.
    Sending abundant love and good wishes,
    Diane

  71. I dedicate this run to you Anna, who helped so many of us find dedication in running, dancing, being. With fond fond fond hugs.

  72. Happy 100th Birthday, Anna! Sending you peace, love, and lightness on this beautiful July day. Thank you for your inspirational and healing practice that continues to dance justice into the world! Hip Hip Hurray!!

  73. Little did I know how much my life would change when I joined your Fall workshop 44 years ago. The year I spent studying with you was life altering and I’m so grateful and fortunate for the experience. Thank you for what you’ve given me and all that you’ve contributed to humanity. You will always hold a special place in my heart. Happy 100. Judy

  74. 9:05 p.m., Gentilly, 13:05 p.m., Pacific Time.
    Today Anna Halprin turns 100 years. This amazing artist, pioneer of performance art and Post-Modern Dance, teacher and inspirer of many artists and choreographers, worked throughout her life to bring dance to the heart of life, in relation to what drives our bodies and our hearts, in relation to the Earth. To celebrate hier 100th birthday and the 40th anniversary of her Planetary dance, his daughter Daria Halprin and the Planetary Dance Committee, organized a virtual dance gathering, for justice and peace.

    Happy birthday Anna, with immense gratitude for your innovative work, more than ever necessary. Your dances travel through our dances and the drum of the Earth is singing for you.
    Thank you !

    https://vimeo.com/437987449

  75. Dear Anna,

    although we met only once you have been and will be an inspiration for me – like you always have been for many people around the world. you are such an amazing person – a gift to the world. Please stay healthy and strong in these special times. Wolfgang from Germany

  76. We dance to end racism. We dance for P-Nut, Rickie, Michael, Donnie, and all people of color — Black, Latino, Asian, Indegenous, etc. We dance to end illness and disease caused by 5G, wifi, EMFs, mold, lyme. We dance for HEALTH for us and all our friends and family. We dance to end medical tyranny — forced vaccination and most pharmaceuticals. We dance for all to be peaceful, loving, health promoting, smart, and free. We dance to end destruction of our environment with toxins in the air and water, chemical pollutants, chemtrails, geoengineering, deforestation, genetically modified organisms. We dance for healthy air, healthy water, healthy food, healthy enviroment. We dance for an END to police brutality, institutional racism and brutality –violence toward all. We dance for a JUST and FAIR democracy here and everywhere that serves the people and not just the corporations and the wealthy. We dance for an equitable society and world for all. We dance to end homelessness, to have safe, clean, healthy homes for all. We dance to end addiction and for recovery, health, peace, joy, truth, reality. We dance for spiritual health (including love, God, and peace) and emotional health for all. We dance for Anna!

  77. Dearest Anna, I was lucky enough to meet you 1995 in Berlin at the Summer University for Peace. What a wonderful experience to dance with you!! Blessings for you, not only on your birthday!!! I dedicate my run to my friend Angela who is a dancer but only is dancing with her eyes. Please have a look to the photos which will explain my last sentence as the article is in German: http://www.farah-lenser.de/files/pdf/ab40_2_06_Jansen.pdf

  78. Dear Anna, so dear to so many, happy hundredth birthday!
    The astounding gift of your presence on this planet for a whole century has sparked new paradigms of creativity, inspiration, power, artistry, joy, healing, support -to countless individual lives, diverse communities and whole platforms across society…. and will continue to affect the course of the arts, dance, psychology, community, society and the lives of those you have touched and their children and grandchildren for many more centuries to come.
    THANK YOU for embodying the very essence of creative potential itself, for living life at its fullest in every breath, for shining your light as bright and bold and powerful and warm as sunshine yet as delightful, magical, mystical and intriguing as the stars. I see you as simultaneously offering your LifeArt through the playfulness, uplifting, spontaneous joy and wondrous sparkle of childlike, curious creativity whilst embodying the creative leadership, profound teaching and masterful artistry of the elder. Thank you for your insight, courage, trust, direction and dedication, your laughter, love, friendship and sparkling vitality that you have offered so openly and naturally to all whom have had the fortune to dance with you. I am immensely grateful to have danced a little of my life with you. (Tamalpa student with ClaudiaCuentas 2005) You have moved the world and the world has been moved through you. Blessings, thanks and birthday love!

  79. Dear Anna,
    Happy 100th Birthday! There is no one like you! Thank you for being a trailblazer and seeking healing for our earth and her people. Forever grateful and honored to have learned from you at your Mountain Studio.
    Blessings to you today and always!
    xo, Gloria J Williams

  80. Dearest Anna, Our times together in the May Area has been highlights of my move to the West Coast. I think of you whenever I use the “dance of life” and similar terms in my writings on personal mythology, and whenever I advocate dance therapy for the shattered souls whose lives have been shattered in these stressful times.

  81. Wondrous lady of the planet! Thank you for blessing the ground and making so much possible for so many on SO many levels. .

  82. Dear Anna, so dear to so many, happy hundredth birthday!
    The astounding gift of your presence on this planet for a whole century has sparked new paradigms of creativity, inspiration, power, artistry, joy, healing, support -to countless individual lives, diverse communities and whole platforms across society…. and will continue to affect the course of the arts, dance, psychology, community, society and the lives of those you have touched and their children and grandchildren for many more centuries to come.
    THANK YOU for embodying the very essence of creative potential itself, for living life at its fullest in every breath, for shining your light as bright and bold and powerful and warm as sunshine yet as delightful, magical, mystical and intriguing as the stars. I see you as simultaneously offering your LifeArt through the playfulness, uplifting, spontaneous joy and wondrous sparkle of childlike, curious creativity whilst embodying the creative leadership, profound teaching and masterful artistry of the elder. Thank you for your insight, courage, trust, direction and dedication, your laughter, love, friendship and sparkling vitality that you have offered so openly and naturally to all whom have had the fortune to dance with you. I am immensely grateful to have danced a little of my life with you. (Tamalpa student with Claudia Cuentas 2005) You have moved the world and the world has been moved through you.
    Blessings, thanks and birthday love!

  83. Dear Anna, so dear to so many, happy hundredth birthday!
    The astounding gift of your presence on this planet for a whole century has sparked new paradigms of creativity, inspiration, power, artistry, joy, healing, support -to countless individual lives, diverse communities and whole platforms across society…. and will continue to affect the course of the arts, dance, psychology, community, society and the lives of those you have touched and their children and grandchildren for many more centuries to come.
    THANK YOU for embodying the very essence of creative potential itself, for living life at its fullest in every breath, for shining your light as bright and bold and powerful and warm as sunshine yet as delightful, magical, mystical and intriguing as the stars. I see you as simultaneously offering your LifeArt through the playfulness, uplifting, spontaneous joy and wondrous sparkle of childlike, curious creativity whilst embodying the creative leadership, profound teaching and masterful artistry of the elder. Thank you for your insight, courage, trust, grace, direction and dedication, your laughter, love, friendship and sparkling vitality that you have offered so openly and naturally to all whom have had the fortune to dance with you. I am immensely grateful to have danced a little of my life with you. (Tamalpa student with Claudia Cuentas 2005) You have moved the world and the world has been moved through you. Blessings, thanks and birthday love!

  84. Happy 100 years Anna!
    Your life has been a gift to humanity.
    You have made a difference in the world.
    A difference for the better, that has evolved the
    human race towards one of peace and justice.
    I am grateful to know you and to have been
    your student. You are a remarkable teacher
    and role model.
    I dance for healing and equality between women and men,
    for my children, sisters, mothers and ancestors –
    and all who have suffered from bullying and violence.
    Lill Kocher

  85. I dedicate my heart and soul to bring peace, joy and love to you, Dear Anna, for whatever is next for you, You have made a huge contribution to all those you have touched through your dance, your caring and your explorations in bringing out the best in people. I’m so happy you were able to watch the virtual Planetary Dance online. I send you much happiness in celebrating your 100th year on earth, the 40th Planetary Dance which has made such a huge global impact, and all that you opened in the world of dance. We are all with you and you are forever embedded in my heart. Much love, Barbara of the Beat

  86. 100 hugs and kisses for you on your hundredth birthday Anna to express my love and gratitude for all you have offered. I circle today, on your hundredth birthday, and dedicate my circling to you and all those who inspire and create change and transformation in relationship to self, other, the collective, the Earth and the Sacred. Thank you for your gifts and your way. I am forever grateful. XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
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    XOXOXOXO LOVE YOU! Cindy

  87. Anna,
    Happy Birthday. What a wonderful light you have been and are for all of us, even those of us who have not been able to meet you in person. I heard of you first through a book, then got close enough that I was able to hear of your wonderful events, gatherings and amazing performances. You have shown us how dance can be so much more. Thank you for opening doors and hearts to the power of a soul that moves, feels and speaks, and how wonderful and life changing that can be. Happy 100! You are amazing. Thank you so much for all that you have given to the world.

  88. I remember having a spiritual dance experience at Mountain Home Studio last August when you taught us. I am honored to have had this experience and thank you for your life’s work. I run for inner peace and healing for myself and all people on earth. Happy 100th birthday dear Anna!

  89. Anna!

    It’s such a pleasure to be writing to you on your 100th birthday, while listening to the drums of the Planetary Dance activated today full of so many dedications, and also full of international dedication to your body of work and contribution to so many fields. Great that this online format serves as a way to remind us how we can be connected despite distances.

    Sending you a happy birthday from Paris, and wishing you a wonderful century lived and lived, and to thank you for all you have offered to us, I feel lucky that I could learn so much from you, and feel support from you over the years, and I carry you, your legacy and your ideas to share and discuss with the emerging generations of dancers I work with here and elsewhere.

    With deep gratitude for our friendship, your mentorship, your artistry and your humanity, thank you for all you have generously shared.

    Love Sherwood

  90. I run for Betsy, and dancing, and Heath Care for All.
    Betsy Rasumny Herbert was my first dance teacher when she was a student at Goddard College and I was 5 years old. First on the black and white tiled floor at Goddard and later, when she became part of our family, on the red octagonaled linoleum in our living room in Calais, VT.
    Betsy danced with Anna back in the day and later for many years in Boulder Creek, CA. Betsy died there when she was 63 from breast cancer because she didn’t have health insurance and it went untreated until it was too late.
    I run for all those without adequate health care especially those who are dying disproportionately from COVID-19. May this crisis bring us to provide real health care for ALL our citizens not just those that can afford it.
    Many, many thanks to you, Anna, for your vision and commitment that created Tamalpa and the chance for me to dance my Self-Portrait with Daria. It was a life-changing time for me to dance every day, for it to be my work and my occupation for those weeks. Thank you, Daria, for your work and far-reaching sight. Thanks to all dancers. As Betsy used to say:
    ‘Dance or Die!’

  91. I see you see I
    We have danced in the shafts of light coming into Mount Madonna Studio. We have danced in the sand and waves of Sea Ranch. We have danced on the warm floor of Mountain Home Studio and danced together in the open trees among the deck below your home. We have danced. We have danced before we met. We have danced. We continue to dance. You may not remember me, my face, my voice but we have swayed together and I will always carry our sway in my heart and body. Carry our dance out into the world and can only hope to touch others lives as much as you have touch mine. Keep on swaying with the wind Anna!!! Deepest respect and gentle blessings to you dear Anna!!! JJ

  92. I run for my cousin Mary Jane Eisenberg that she may persevere in her encounter with cancer and may all encountering cancer persevere.

  93. Anna, colombe de paix
    Par ta danse, tu répands sur la Terre une vibration d’espoir, d’inspiration et de changement qui est une vraie guérison pour l’humanité
    Tu as ouvert la voie, poser ton empreinte et montrer la voie pour que chacun de nous à son tour puisse oser s’envoler librement dans la pleine expression de son être
    Merci Anna
    Puisses tu continuer longtemps de nous inonder de ta lumière étincelante telle une étoile dans le ciel
    Je n’oublierai jamais ces instants sur le deck du Mountain home studio Et ton enseignement dans l’innocence et la simplicité de ta présence.
    Laissons maintenant la vie nous traverser et nous retrouver dans la danse
    Merveilleux anniversaire Anna

  94. Happy Birthday, Anna—taller than the tallest tree, more powerful than a locomotive, sprite, spirit, visionary. I dance for you and the global community you’ve created. Thank you for standing for justice and peace, thank you with all my heart!

  95. Dear Anna,
    We miss our Thursday pilgrimages to your dance deck, the moments of opening and reviving something deeply essential together.
    Our children danced on the deck with you.
    We loved sharing the movement and vibrations, the laughing whooping joy, learning from your embodied experience over time. Inspiration to carry us across the decades and keep moving, in nature and in connection.
    100 years, celebration!
    With love,
    Hillary

  96. I was Anna’s assistant twenty years ago. At age 80, she had more energy than five of me, and continually inspired me to find my ways to contribute to good in the world. I am so grateful to Anna, Daria, and all the people who keep the Life Art process alive. May we all continue to find our ways to dance for good in this realm and all others. Tor Carberry (the social artist formerly known as Munir 🙂

  97. Dear Anna, You are such an important figure in my life! Your visit to Los Angeles, shortly after I began teaching at UCLA, was a highlight of my time here. But it feels wrong to point out just one encounter or one moment. When it comes to celebrating your century of life, your DURATION is meaningful to me, the fact of your being alive, so alive, over such a long period of time. Thank you for sharing your lifetime of intelligence and inspiration. Sending you much love on this special day. I run for Anna Halprin!

  98. I dance so all children and their families may experience a life of health, hope, respect, opportunity, love and joy on this beautiful harmonious planet. May my neighbor, John, and all of the immigrant community in my small Minnesota town feel comfort and acceptance HERE.

  99. Today I was teaching a group of 14 year old kids, guiding them in a group improvisation. One girl comes to the front and holds her hands to her head. Another girl joins and holds the hands and head of the first girl. Supporting it as a good friend. Together they walk through the space and this something breaks,…. the first girl starts to cry deeply. Other youngsters enter the space. They come close and throw delicate moves in the direction of the tears. Or stay in distance and dance with fierceness… they don’t break the magic, but embrace to vulnerable emotions of the moment. They dance with it, integrate it, allow themselves to be touched…. towards the end all 9 youngsters hold each others’ hands. They are one. They belong to each other. They love each other. And they are there for each other. In good and bad times… they will dance together. Together, they walk to the front of the stage. Showing themselves to the audience in all their beauty, vulnerability… in all their togetherness. Some are crying. Touched. Deeply moved. I am also crying.
    … thank you Anna! For showing me the power of movement and how deeply it can touch each individual in this world. Thank you for showing me the universality of movement and dance. The power of a single movement that can make the whole room cry or laugh.

    I dedicate my dance to all gays & queers who feel lonely, disconnected and unsafe to love fully! May they meet their tribe and discover that they belong.

    congratulations Anna! I love you.
    Johnny Schoofs

  100. Dear Anna,
    In deep appreciation and gratitude for you. Your vision, spirit, courage, determination and wisdom have touched my soul. You have awakened the dance in me pass on by my dear Aunt who danced with Martha Graham. Thank you form the bottom of my heart for all that you have given to this world by your presence.I have danced at your studio and on your dancing deck , today in the midst of this upheaval I dance for all the people of this world, and my grandchildren and children not yet born to inherit an earth where all people are respected, loved and know justice and freedom.
    Happy 100th birthday Anna with much love to you.
    Trudi

  101. I dance for the healing and justice of the victims of abuse and especially those of the refugees that I accompany, that our art and our gathering passing by myself can be an act of faith and healing. Thank you Anna for this transmission.

  102. I dance in honor of all the unarmed black Americans who have been lynched, executed, or murdered by vigilante mobs, white terrorists, and racist police over the last 150 years

  103. Anna, I danced with you starting in 1971 and many years passed between workshops, but I continued to do them at important moments in my life all the way to your 5 day workshop in 2017. You are with me every day of my life as I do my daily movements, through 25 years of teaching in the NYC schools to 15 years of bringing A-bomb survivors into classrooms and international conferences all the way to Oslo where, as members of ICAN (the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) we received the Nobel Peace Prize. “At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
    Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is . . . ” I will dance with you to the end and beyond. I love you beyond words.

  104. Happy Birthday dear Anna and blessings on your day and year ahead!
    Anna I will always remember you with huge Gratitude for:
    the space and fluidity you taught me to find in my spine,
    introducing me to the healing space of creative communal ritual,
    opening up new pathways for me into nature,
    and the belief and trust in the knowledge of body and
    the creative process available to everyone.
    I dance for all South Africans experiencing poverty.

  105. Dear Anna, We celebrate your spirit- generous, loving, witty, warm, inspiring. We are in Carmel looking at the beauty of the ocean, in constant flux and renewal. This reminds us of our wonderful times with you and Larry at the Sea Ranch; living fully and at one with nature. Your life-force and you loving nature is always with us wherever we travel. It is a gift you have given the world for a century and it will keep renewing the world for generations. With much love, Buzz and Tina

  106. Dearest Anna, Happy **100** Birthday wishes to you. I am sending you lots of love across the oceans from England all the way to your dance deck and Mountain Home studio, up the stairs to your home, through an open window, from my heart to yours. Thank you for all the amazing, precious moments shared, from learning by your side, from dancing in your classes, performing for you at the opening night of your life retrospective at the Lyon Museum of Art, what fun we had travelling across France. To the hundreds of conversations, laughter and naughty chocolate. Learning about you & meeting you in person changed my life. I feel blessed to have experienced many Planetary Dances in person with you, I can still feel each dance and the potency of each prayer in my body. Today I make my dedication for all those around the world facing life threatening illnesses, may they be free from fear. With love, upmost respect and a deep bow. Lian

  107. Bright blessings on your 100th turning around the sun, Anna Halprin!

    Circling back from the Planetary Dance in 2007 at ADF, today I run for all those who cannot run in the middle of the brokenness. May our golden breath fill the crevices and cracks of our collective soul to create healing beauty, dancing authentically into the center.

  108. Happy Birthday Anna.
    You are always with me I have dreams of you guiding me. I believe your dedication will bring forth the guiding spirit and HEALING PRESENCE by all you have touched. Thank You

  109. I join this dance today to keep awakening to our deep interconnectedness and to sowing peace with every step on this beautiful earth.

    Happy birthday, dear Anna! And, thank you!!!

  110. I woke up emotional, looking to the west.
    100 years…
    It seems to be a huge gift for us to have you here… a part of the human world.
    Sometimes everything is falling appart. The society has hurts me so deeply the past few months.
    I was blocked into my house, not even allowed to get out for hugging a tree… I put a sheet of paper on my wall and started to wrote the name of people I know fighting for a better world…
    Your name was the first I wrote.
    HANNA HALPRIN.

    One day, Daria proposed me to wondering about the symbolic under my desire to meeting you.
    But she has teachs me, as you do, the importance of symbols in our life. As I was thinking about it, not only one but a few answers emerged.
    There had a story about fighting for our dreams and for what we think it’s right. There had a story about looking for our roots. There had something about the power of the physical body… Something that the mind connections can’t really remplace. The last story was about the water cleaning us from the past as my tears are rolling on my cheeks right now.
    I wrote a dedication for you yesterday. I took the time to think about my words. Now, I’m just improvising this message and this is more the emotional than the mental who takes place. Please forgive my English if he is dancing in crazy directions.
    My body and spirit are ready for your Planetary Dance.
    I also have a surprise for you as I created a screendance this week. I recorded it surrounded by the tropically forest of my Caribbean island and all those symbols within. I wish you will be able to watch it today.
    Dear Anna… I wish you a beautiful day, lovely times with your family and nourishing connection with your community.

    With Love,
    Aurore

    **
    THE MOVIE RITUAL:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enCv8GkZScs&feature=youtu.be

    *

    Pour cette Planetary Dance 2020, je danserais pour tous ceux qui se sentent oppressés par la société dans laquelle ils vivent. Puissions-nous trouver la force rester vivants.

  111. Happy Birthday in this strange ever new world! I feel honored to have danced with you at Esalen. May this day bring and spread peace and love in a beautiful wave across the planet. Happy Birthday Anna!

  112. FROM; BUZZ YUDELL AND TINA BEEBE
    Dear Anna, We celebrate your spirit- generous, loving, witty, warm, inspiring. We are in Carmel looking at the beauty of the ocean in its constant flux and renewal. This reminds us of our wonderful times with you and Larry at the Sea Ranch; living fully and at one with nature. Your life-force and your loving nature is always with us, wherever we travel. It is a gift you have given the world for a century and it will keep renewing the world for generations. With much love, Buzz and Tina/

  113. Dearest most beloved Anna,

    100 years…

    You are a blessing

    Thank you for every grain of sand that I have moved my body through

    Thank you for teaching me the power and depth of ritual

    Thank you for all the laughter

    Thank you for all the tears

    Thank you for letting me be me…

    Forever in my mind and heart

    Happy Birth Day

    I love you…

    Eeo

    Today I light a candle for mindfulness and loving kindness;
    in my life and for all who live on earth.

  114. I dedicate my dance today to Lloyd Littlebird and his passage through to the Milkyway. Peace and Justice and Love for my greatest friend and Mother-I run for Anna, oh my, 1920 was ah hell of a year, and 2020 is oh my, one hell of a year, I run for Peace and Justice

  115. I was honored to meet you in New York dancing at the Judson. Those two times changed my life. I got to dance with you on your home studio among the redwoods, I called it in 2012 and 2014. Thank you for your life’s work in dance, in theatre and creating this wonder of the Planetary dance! Happy 100th birthday.❤️❤️❤️

  116. Dear Anna, I cannot tell you how happy I am in knowing you have arrived at this milestone of your life..100 years. Of all the things I am thinking to say, I can’t escape the thought that this year you will get a chance to cast your ballot in November to assure the person-not-to-be named is voted out of office finally. I think of you voting this year in part because the day after I had gone with you to vote in 2016 (for a woman to be president – the 1st time in your 96 years!), I had to break the news to you about the election results…I believe it may have been the only time I saw you cry, real, heartbroken tears.

    Throughout your life and dances, current events and politics in the world have been a motivating force for your engagement that has asked us — the people, the audience, the dancers — to consider, to care, to create, to speak to the current events of the time, and to actively stand for Justice and Peace among People and with the Earth. This global dance ritual, this Planetary Dance, has become the body of bodies that will move beyond the limits of time for generations to come from the seeds planted some 40 years ago.

    That 2016 election was significant but now, this year, we have the opportunity to reroute and reclaim that platform by supporting intelligent and good leaders who stand for nothing less than Justice and Peace and have No Tolerance for tyranny, hatred, and violence in this nation and in the world. And so, this year I run to set in motion and to be in solidarity with the voices and votes that will assure sweeping changes in the current US government administration.

    Love Always, Sarah

  117. Happy Birthday Anna. How fortunate we all are to have danced with your energy, heart and presence for an entire century…thank you LOVE. There are a rare and precious group of people that have come to teach us how to more fully embody our deepest humanity (Emilie Conrad and Nancy Stark Smith also come to mind)…that give us vision beyond what we are conditioned to believe is possible. You have gifted us all with this precious possibility…to be more present, mindful, aware and alive…to enter more deeply into our primary relationship with the natural world…to expand our consciousness and give us the tools to more fully embody and express this evolving awareness. Together we are becoming more whole, more aware and more connected…YES and THANK YOU.

    For me Justice is a declaration of our human right to live our Truth, to be in Sovereignty, to have the freedom to grow, evolve, express and relate in whatever way is rightful for each of us while in recognition that we are ONE.

    I dedicate my dance to all Beings…may we all live in our Truth…in our Sovereignty…in our Freedom…and in the glorious joy of our fullest EXPRESSION…in recognition of the RECIPROCITY that exists ALL WAYS…PEACE.

    Happiest of Birthdays Anna…your Spirit has served our re-BIRTH and I humbly bow to you in gratitude and love.

    Amy

  118. I dance for my niece to feel safe in this country and to have the right and the freedom to live in the United States as a free person. I run for all the dreamers, for all the undocumented people in this country to feel safe, protected and to know that we all belong to this land we now call home.

  119. His name was Fred Null and he brought me to meet Anna. Anna hired me on the spot to be Executive Director of Tamalpa, at a time in my life when I was a single mom, recently moved to Marin County and looking for a job that would challenge me– that would allow me to continue to build on the success I had enjoyed in managing a large scale arts event in Oregon. She loved that I was Jewish. There is a comraderie among Jews that can’t be denied, a kind of trust, as if saying, we are family. I loved how proudly Anna wore her Jewish heritage. It is so much a part of who Anna is. For me, being Jewish was painful and hard, but for Anna, it is a complete joy to be a Jew. I always loved hearing her tell, and dance, the story as a little girl watching her grandfather from the balcony, with his long white beard, praying in the synagogue below. For her, he was the physical manifestation of G-d. The deep spiritual way that her grandfather impacted her life was a profound gift that she shared with all of us.

    Anna and I were a great match. I had had a very clever, but difficult father, and learned how to get along with someone who was that demanding and challenging. I intuitively knew how to gently diffuse Anna’s anxiety with humor. Unlike so many others, our relationship was not a student/teacher relationship, one where her students look up to and revere her. Being revered or adored was not something that Anna appreciated. She didn’t want to be revered. And though I certainly did learn a great deal from her, our relationship was one where she counted on me in a million little and important ways, and under her artistic direction, we pulled off the first Circle the Earth together. I ran Tamalpa for three years and only left when I had to deal with a serious health problem.

    Through the years, Anna and I have remained friends. Though I don’t see her often, there is a deep love between us that I will always treasure. Whenever I think of Anna Halprin, it is always a blessing. Thank you, Anna for sharing all that you are with me and with the world. I dedicate this Planetary Dance to your 100th birthday.
    I love you.
    Ilene English

  120. i m running for blacklivesmatter and in honor of lorin smith and for anna halprin, who started this dance. deeply grateful! i love you anna, happy birthday xoxo

  121. Happy 100th Birthday dear Anna!

    Your work has changed me and continues to inform my soul work. I am forever grateful!

    Today I run for my dear friend Maria, and for her to continue her important work to empower her Sapara sisters, and women around the globe to be voices of the rainforest.

    With love from Norway

  122. Dear Anna, Thank you for sharing your wisdom! Through your teachings, I connect dance, movement, life, and nature. I learn to slow down and become one with my surroundings. That I can heal myself. The universe listens, and to never doubt the power of dance & ritual. Happy 100th! I am grateful for you.

  123. Dear Anna
    You have always taken what matteres….in a certain moment or life-phase for you personally as well as socially. Reading Daria’s text Today it seems that you do so now as well, sitting in a Chair on your deck. This is what you, Daria and the Tamalpa Team and Community have teached me: meet your innerst need, take what matters develope, grow, transform….yourself as well as in dialogue. And I do, as good as I can in work and private life.
    Thank you Anna for your true searching and transforming in the past and in future. Love and a soft energetic touch from the Swiss Mountaintops

  124. Happy 100th my dearest Anna, you have changed my life. May we continue the dance for always…

    This year I run for all black mothers who have lost a child to police violence. May no mother have to mourn the death of her child to the hands of racism.

  125. “I run for my sister-in-law Pia for feel safe in her home and protesting in the streets, and for all Black and Filipino, Asian American sisters and brothers.”

  126. Dear Anna,
    I did the Planetary Dance with you in San Diego in the mid-1980s, and you gave me a motto I’ve carried through my life—Stay in the Dance.

    An exercise we were doing in a pre-workshop stirred up a lot of emotion for a woman in my “family.” She ran out of the gym where we were dancing. The rest of us found her and brought her back, and you came over and talked with her. You told her, “Whatever is happening, stay in the dance. Even if you need to curl up in a fetal position weeping, stay in the dance.”

    Thank you for the beauty and healing you’ve given the world. Thank you for inspiring me to always stay in the dance.

  127. Dearest Anna, today I uplift your 100th birthday by running and circling in celebration of all you’ve taught me, my limbs finding continual nourishment from your roots. The timbre of your voice speaking my name to me and your bright gaze lives inside me, vibrations creating internal space for hearing and knowing. My Planetary Dance intention today, is to champion the power of community when people take great risks to show themselves and their illness, and to support healing and social justice through what you have shared. It is the greatest honor to embrace our link in lineage and carry forward. Happy, happy 100th birthday, Anna!

  128. Dear Anna – mother of conscious dancing in the world!
    Inspired by you in my 20’s and in my 40’s, dancing with you had a big impact on my life. That’s the reason why I want to dedicate the rest of my life (and my earth run today!) in creating a dance resort with my loved one, surrounded by beautiful nature in Germany, where people can come in close contact with themselves, with others and with nature, to restore, heal and to honor.
    Thank you for every little movement you made.
    Herzlichen Glückwunsch (heartly Luckwish ; )
    With Gratitude, melanie nowak

  129. I have always wanted to meet and dance with you Anna and have not been able to. I thank you and wish you a beautiful day with all of us dancing and moving together as you have done for decades. I dance for the elders who too often are isolated and even more during this time on the planet. May their histories and wisdom be welcomed, shared and respected to move us forward in peaceful ways AND may we all reach out to the elders in our lives to let them know we are here. love and light Prisca, Taos, NM

  130. Dear Anna

    Happy glorious 100th! I am grateful to you and your life’s efforts; to the steps you took throughout your life that made way for those of us following you, to feed ourselves on a soulful level and learn more about our individual selves than ever before in a creative space. Through your movement and ideas, I found myself again. I healed myself.

    On my first Planetary Dance, I dance for all those across the Earth who need healing, to transform and release all old energy, which allows each of us to move past our limitations and reach our ultimate potential.
    I also dance for those who need healing in relationships, as individuals and together, encouraging them to move and look past all that appear unsatisfactory, and to see and communicate with unconditional love.

  131. Dear Anna,
    happy birthday to you!
    I am so thankful to be one of the 10th class’s students at Tamalpa Germany and sharing this very special moment with you. Thank you so much for all your energy and dedication to the worldwide dance community. With all my love for justice and peace from Switzerland

  132. Thank you Anna, for your fight for peace and understanding and for the example you are setting. Doing the training with you in 1984 changed my life, gave me a family and brought magic and magical friendships into my life. Today, for your 100th birthday I am dancing with you, with your and my friends, here in Boulder, CO.

  133. Dear Anna six year passed since I´ve studied with you, it´s hard to find words that could accomplish what your life and teachings means to me. You helped me to find in Life-Art a larger meaning, of Service to the ALL and the possibility to bring change to people´s lives starting by mine. Deep gratitude dear Anna, you´re a LIGTH! Happy Celebration with all of us.

  134. Anna! You are foundational to me since The Twin Cities Halprin Dance Co-op in the Corte Madera Rec Center with the little lion statues outside. The individual and the collective, the joy and creativity of being embodied —– all to be seen in the photos of our young selves lost and found in this magic. Love and gratitude always, to you and the communities you were so instrumental in forming. My peace and justice dedication is to bringing my best self to the 2020 fall elections.

  135. I run for myself and my family and for all those who, because of Covid19, war or scarcity, cannot embrace their loved ones, so that soon this moment of union between bodies and hearts can happen again.

  136. how does one describe the great influence that Anna had on my life. She came to lecture on her “dance as a healing art” to our ITP group and at the moment I knew I had found my teacher. Danced with Anna on Tuesdays, Remembering the Body, for over a decade. Anna’s simple instructions that moved us deeply. how we can together as a group, pairs. After being in Anna’s class never looked at movement the same. It has made me a more rounded human. Thank you Anna with love.

  137. Liebe Anna, dein Tanz, die inneren Bilder zu verraumen, und durchzuatmen, dein Lebenswerk hat mich für meinen Heilungsweg und meine Tanzarbeit tief berührt. Der Tanz verbindet uns Menschen in der Zeit, im Raum und im Herzen. Lieben Dank, Happy Birthday, Rest Anna🔷

  138. Anna, remembering you means ongoing inspiration to my body and mind. You made me physically understand the meaning of the word ‘mellow’.
    Thank you

  139. Anna. I would not be the me I am without the body of work that you began. Thank you. Anna (Shropshire, UK)

    I run for my tree, for the forest that surrounds me and for the protection of our fragile climate that supports all life on earth.

  140. I run for the children who cannot run:
    The differently abled, the oppressed,
    the marginalized and the unheard. I dance for their freedom and uplifting.

  141. Dearest Anna, I am sending you blessings of love on your 100th birthday. So grateful for your mentorship, guidance, support and inspiration, for this I give great thanks. You forever remain in my heart.

    I run for Justice and Equality for People of African Descent and for all People of Color

  142. Happy Birthday, Anna Halprin!
    And deep gratitude for bringing so much dance and healing into our world.
    I am still inspired by dancing with you in your workshops at the 92St. Y.
    Cheers!

  143. Dearest Anna, thinking of you with love and courage, with gratitude and deepest respect of you and your work. Miranda in Luxembourg

  144. Happy Birthday Dear Anna. You and Life Art Process absolutely changed my life. For me You – Absolutely Amazing Woman – and this beautiful method have been inspired me for many years. Thank You for your creation, dance, inspiration, light and love for other people. Lots of love.

  145. Dear Anna,

    I wish you all the best for your 100th birthday and feel honored that I have a chance to take part in the ceremony tonight as I have only started to train in Freiburg with Tamalpa Germany!
    Thank you so much for your work and your life.
    I run for the healing of the wounds that have been inflicted on the black community for centuries and for the healing of the reasons in each individual that cause racist feelings and acts.

  146. happy birthday 100 ms anna forever halprin…..
    45 years ago i had dinner on your 55th birthday out of an abalone shell on the front area of your sea ranch house. (benito santiago was one of the teachers, actually…) and this morning i cried tears of love that i could not contain about the expansive acceptance i have internalized in my adult lifetime of Knowing you. you will Never be forgotten. Never. Ever.
    you are the grasses blowing and the waves spilling and the feelings happening and the Body Being. take care and know that you have been appreciated and loved. always, cathy

  147. Dear Anna, you and the dance have changed my life, enriched, always inspired me , lifted me, challenged the change, I am very very grateful !!!
    My Love to you and happy Birthday, blessings for today and days to come!! And a Big Hug I send with the soft winds over the ocean to you.
    May we meet again.
    I will run / dance for all living creatures to be respected.

  148. Dear Anna,
    We have not yet danced together but I am thankful that today will be the closest encounter yet. Thank you for being an inspiration, for dedicating your life to spreading your belief in movement and its capacity for healing. Thank you for believing and sharing. May your life continue to be blessed <3

  149. Dearest Anna of the Highlands,
    From our first encounter in 1985 at the community class for circle the mountain
    when you chose Peter Edwards & me to be Warrior dancers to our last lunch together at the behest of your grandson Jahan just a few months ago in your studio, you have supported, encouraged & inspired me & so many others in ways you’ll never know. I am honored to know you and to have been included in so many dances, classes and runs with you. Your passion, creativity & service will always be remembered.
    With love, G

  150. Happy Birthday Anna! Thank you for
    being-dancing-living-loving on this planet of ours. I feel blessed that l had the opportunity to joun the Planetary Dance in Beit Jalla (near Jerusalem) few yeaes ago, such a powerfull experience, each cell of my body still remembers.. Today I will run for the children and women at risk, to feel safe and be heard and seen..

  151. Happy 100th Birthday Anna!

    I still remember the first day I met you back in 1998. I was so impressed with your energy and how you expressed yourself. It shifted my world instantaneously. By the end of that workshop at the Esalen Institute, I was in love. I went back home to Michigan ready to leave everything behind and move to California and study with you AND I DID! I have never regretted it. My eyes were opened to possibilities that I never could have imagined.

    You mean so much to me Anna. I even have a picture of you on my altar, which helps me continue to be in my body, moving through the stuck places and celebrating the beauty. I hope your day is extra special like you are my lovely Anna.

    Many blessings and thank yous for all that you offer the world!

  152. Happy radiant 100th to you, Anna!
    Today I dance for you and and all threads of humanity from our ancient ancestors to the star seed souls of the present and future. I dance outside under the tree on my wooden deck in gratitude for your wisdom & heart-opening experiences in your studio. I dance today to perpetuate a ritual of continuing your legacy, Life/Art~ dancing for peace, justice and infinite aloha.

  153. Anna, my heart is with you on this day and the days to come. Every morning I do movement ritual , I am healthy, dance with other dancers regularly, if I am in inner trouble I remember your: DANCE IT DRAW IT GET OVER IT and it helps.
    Anna I am so blessed that you , Daria, Soto, Jamie and Ken – to name some of the Tamalpa Crew – were my teachers in 94//95 . I see, I feel, I imagine- has become a habit in my everyday life – which like dancing I have to practice …
    Thank you so much ANNA !!!!!!!!

  154. I run and dance for Ellen – who can’t pay her rent….and ALL people displaced and needing to sustain our homes and work during Covid times.
    May all people live safely in places of health, harmony and equity.

  155. I dedicate this planetary dance in honour of the healing you Anna bring to this planet and all the healing you inspire us to bring. I dedicate my planetary dance to the breath of life.

    I celebrate your life Anna!
    With love and gratitude,
    Sylvia

  156. Dearest Anna ~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY! We celebrate you and all that you have created during your lifetime today! You have made the world a better place than it was when you arrived 100 (!) years ago. You have offered the breath of life, literally and metaphorically, to so many people (me included!) through Movement Ritual, dancing, drawing, creative writing, and performance beyond the formal stage. May the “breath made visible” by your pioneering work continue to nourish you and the countless lives you’ve touched. My dedication for the Planetary Dance today is to dance for Abby and Elinor and all living beings – including the Earth herself – so that they all know the joy of breathing freely. With endless gratitude and wishes for on-going creativity ~ Elisabeth

  157. I run for my friend and all people who suffer and are in pain, physically or mentally. I run for them finding healing, connections and peace from within and without.

  158. Dear Anna,
    I greet you on your 100th birthday and am grateful for opportunities I have had to learn about, write about, and experience your work. I treasure the note I received from you long ago after you read my master’s thesis. Thank you for your words that encouraged me and that I have carried with me all these years. Coming full circle, I have made my way through time and space to participate with you and others in the Planetary Dance. I treasure this moment and I wish to honor your century span of life that may best be seen and appreciated as a work of art.

  159. I run for my daughter to find peace and strength in her heart. Allow her healing to connect with that of her mother and grandmother and great grandmothers befor them. May we all find peace and empowerment to stand in our truth.

  160. Happy 100th Birthday Anna!
    It was July of 2009, when we first met in person, at Esalen for your weeklong Exploration of Movement –a most magical time and we all celebrated your 89th Birthday! For many years prior, my friends had told me about you, your artistry as woman and teacher, and the healing power of movement and dance. And the first night when we all gathered together, you walked up to me and took my hand and told me that you were sure we had met before. In that moment, you helped me connect to a place inside that had longed to find expression in the world. Your warmth and beautiful smile and the twinkle in your eyes touched my soul. I continued to come to your classes at your Mountain Home on Tuesday mornings for several years. I am so thrilled to be celebrating your 100th Birthday with you! Dear Anna, may you have a most delightful and joyful birthday! Your beautiful smile and the many memories of dancing with you on your out door stage are imprinted in my heart forever! With Love and Gratitude, Susan Baron

  161. Bon Anniversaire Anna from Paris, I’ll be dancing the hole day for you ! This morning at the Menagerie de Verre we talked about your dance and remember how great is to know you, Daria and the Tamalpa Institute. Merci pour ta poésie ! Merci d’aimer si fort ! Merci 🙏
    Tonight I would run for my friend Michellle and for all the Michel, lle and llle to celebrate the peace and freedom.

  162. HAPPY CONTINUATION ANNA❣️
    Your visit to Japan changed my life forever, reconnecting with my truth through my body, art and Nature.
    Love ,and gratitude

  163. Dearest Anna,

    Wishing you a very happy birthday. Thank you for bringing this inspirational and transformative work to the world. Deeply grateful for your gifts and grace on this beautiful earth.

    With love
    Victoria

  164. Happy Birthday, Dear Anna!
    I woke this morning with bird song in the forest where I live. The river flows freely amongst the trees. It is here, I hear the voice of the Mother. Every morning, I walk with Her. Each step a prayer for healing and of gratitude. Today, I dance with family throughout the world in your honor. Thank you for gifting us with the Planetary Dance ritual. It matters.
    Today, ….. I dance for the Black community of Union Hill. (We celebrate the death of the ACPipeline!) May POC communities be free from the exploitation of petro colonization! ….. May we learn to live in harmony with the abundant energy the Earth gifts to us all.

  165. Dearest Anna, Happy Birthday!!!

    My name is Tamar. I remember you told me that I was the first maori / polynesian woman to dance on your dance deck from New Zealand in 2016.

    A circle of 8 women and I will be celebrating your 100 years and the Planetary Dance for Justice and Peace from my music and dance studio: Te Aroha in Barcelona tonight.

    I am so grateful for the way you have touched my life and I will always remember how you told me to “Speak up” and “Keep your creativity alive”. Here burning the candles with much love and appreciation for you and your life. Thank you. Aho!

  166. Dear Anna,
    You are a singular inspiration to us all: you show us that one can continue to grow, to expand, one’s whole life. I will treasure childhood and more recent memories of exploring, full-body, your warm, Redwood dance deck, and you leading, responding. Thank you for these memories and teachings that sustain, and also, for indirectly bestowing my name!
    Warmest wishes on your 100th birthday.
    Love,
    Daria

  167. I dedicate this practice to all somatic practices, with the wish they will be recognice as a fundamental resource of wisdom and source of interconnection between all life forms and the environment. My classes with Anna and her wonderful work have been inspiring and nourishing my being and work deeply. I am extremely grateful and honoured for it. No words are enough to express what i feel…but i will let my payecipation compleate my prayers… i also would love to thank you for creating this space and express my gratitude also to Daria Halprin for her wonderful knowledge and to share her support in a very difficult moment.
    From my heart sincerelly
    Jadi

  168. I run to create a truly free and equal society where everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their dreams. For a society based on empathy, cooperation and social and enviromental justice. Thank you Anna and Happy 100th Birthday!

  169. Dearest Anna, You have been such a great inspiration! It was an honor to study with you and learn from you. Since we met many years ago on the deck, your voice has been alive within me and your cultural sensitivities, dance ideas and methods are a guiding map in my life. Wishing you happiness and love. Yali Nativ (Israel)

  170. Dear Anna,
    My participation in the full year training in 1985-86 has had a major impact on my personal and professional life. It was then the beginning of my doctoral studies and a 30-year career as teacher and qualitative researcher in the field of consciousness studies in education at Laval University in Québec city, Canada. Today on the occasion of the Planetary Dance on the theme of Justice and Peace, my attention/intention is on the wish of a better distribution of wealth in the world and within my own country.

  171. Dear Anna, My heart lights up at the thought of you. I have special memories visiting you and Larry at your home with Will during one Haunaka after Larry got out of the hospital, and bringing Will to your rehearsal of the piece, Intensive Care and your opening of Will’s memorial service with a Last Dance with Will where all the people danced with Will in side themselves. I remember taking your classes and your being in our group with Mimi.

    I cherish these memories and I salute you along with thousands of others for your courage and creativity and your 80 years of deep exploration and practice that brought love, dance and healing into the world. The medicine that you have brought to the world has inspired and enriched and has been a source of healing for so many.

    I send you my Deep Gratitude and Much Love, Ailish Schutz

  172. Dear Anna, I feel so blessed to have fulfilled a life-dream of mine, touching down on your dance deck in 2018, learning from you and your extraordinary legacy. Thank you for your great spirit, and for creating, “Dances That Matter.”

    I run and pray for all those struggling with mental health, for healing between mothers and daughters, and for our Mother Earth.

    With love and gratitude,
    Anouk

  173. Anna, Happy Birthday!
    I am so grateful to have found your work, it has brought my body alive in ways I had not imagined possible.

    Today I move in dedication to the undulation and nourishment of the breath – that we may all breathe freely, that our breath may support us to enact our dreams from our own power.

    With Love xxxxxx

  174. dear Anna, I was lucky enough to meet you in Berlin 1995 where you gave a workshop in a Summer University for Peace. That was an amazing experiment for me! Thank you so much for your wonderful being!! I will dedicate this dance for my dear friend Angela, who is also a dancer but can only move her eyes. Here you can see some wonderful pictures of her which will explain the last sentence though the article is in german. http://www.farah-lenser.de/files/pdf/ab40_2_06_Jansen.pdf
    Glückauf! Farah

  175. Thank you Anna for being who you are throughout 100 years, a whole era! You taught me so much about the dance of life, und I owe you my health and vitality of the past 35 years. Your teachings and your inspiration will live on in so many people. Thank you, and may you have a very happy birthday!

  176. Happy Birthday Anna. Thank you for sharing your dance of life. We move in a birthday celebration dance with you; a circle dance with the hawk who flys around and aroundin above the deck. Thank you, soul sister! Love.

  177. Dear Anna, ♥ Happy 😊 Birthday 🎂 and blessings from the bottom of my heart to you. Thank you so much for all the skills I was able to learn from you, Daria and anyone of the Tamalpa team. It inspired me deeply as artist, woman and spiritual being. Much love 💕 and laughter to you!
    I run / dance for all the people who are bringing more beauty, peace ✌ and joy into our world 🌍!

  178. Happy 100th Birthday Anna! Thank you for opening so many possibilities to art and life. I am very glad to had the opportunity to meet you and to dance inspired by your teaching.
    This year I run to all live beings in the planet, specially black people, that are still suffering with prejudice and injustice. I wish healing, lucidity and hope to all people around the world.

  179. EARTH RUN DEDICATION:
    I run for FOOD JUSTICE.
    Food justice means everyone has enough to eat, and that the food we eat is good for people and good for the planet
    I run for every family in my hometown, Oakland, to be able to participate in food justice every day.

  180. Mazal Tov, Anna. A late-comer to dance (after age 65), I am inspired by your work and your life! I first learned about you through Reudi Gerber’s film about you “Breath Made Visible,” shown at the Swiss Embassy in Washington, DC, in 2011. I was subsequently thrilled to participate in a few of your workshops in Kentfield and to celebrate your 95th birthday party rehearsal! This will be my first planetary dance and I will dance for justice and the health of the planet and its peoples. Wishing you the joy of dance, good health, and happiness to age 120 (At least)!
    L’chaim!
    Carla

  181. I run for my children Agee, Daxton & Izzy that they may know freedom from race & have the wisdom & passion to always fight for justice.

  182. Happy 100th Birthday Anna!
    It was July of 2009, when we first met in person, at Esalen for your weeklong Exploration of Movement –a most magical time and we all celebrated your 89th Birthday! For many years before, my friends had told me about you and the healing power of movement and dance. And that first night at Esalen in the white tent, when we all gathered together, you walked up to me and took my hand and told me that you were sure we had met before. In that moment, you helped me connect to a place inside that had longed to find expression in the world. Your warmth and beautiful smile and the twinkle in your eyes touched my soul. I continued to come to your classes and loved Tuesday mornings at your Mountain Home till 2014 when I had to leave Marin County for several years. I have since returned to live in Greenbrae and I am so thrilled to be celebrating your 100th Birthday with you! Dear Anna, may you have a most delightful and joyful birthday! Your beautiful smile and the many memories of dancing with you on your outdoor stage are imprinted in my heart forever! With Love and Gratitude, Susan Baron

  183. Dear Anna, happy birthday to you- it is an honor and inspiration to have met you. Thank you for creating a container where so many can unleash their human potential and for helping soooo many people to return home. Thank you too for inviting me in your home at Sea Ranch and sharing yourself and your endless creativity and generosity with me. May you continue to be you and receive the love and creativity that you give to others.

    I run for my son Nathan and all the children on earth that have experienced trauma early in life. May they heal, find peace and help us heal this world

  184. Happy 100 Anna querida!! I miss you and love you dearly~

    This year I run for my son and for all the children~ May we all continue working together to heal the wounds of our collective body, so that our children can grow in a more just, healthy, and peaceful world.

  185. Happy 100th Birthday, Anna!!!
    Thank you so much for being my Sunshine.

    My planetary dance dedication is “appreciation, transformation, love and peace for myself, my family and the universe.”

    Much love from Brazil and Japan.
    Nori  

  186. Dearest Anna,
    Warrior of dance and creativity. Being in your presence was a powerful connective event of sound, movement, nature and breath. One day in your studio when you were in your nineties, you got down on the floor next to me and gently moved me into position, stood up and moved on. One of my sweetest memories was going to the Rafael theater to see your film and hear you speak. I watched you fluidly walk up to the stage with great presence and ease of grace and beauty.You contained multitudes.

    We are asked to speak to our times in this dedication to your life and your work so I will say this. Your bravery and courage in creativity, the depth and honest of your work speaks to this lovely quote that I think of dancing on your deck and spinning with others. “At the still point if the turning world, neither flesh nor fleshless. Neither from nor towards ; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement, and do not call it fixity. Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards. Neither advent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point , There would be no dance. And there is only the dance.” Happy Birthday Anna.

  187. My Dearest Anna,

    Blessings to you on the wondrous occasion of your birthday. One hundred years. Wow. This world was given a fine, fine gift on the day of your birth. You have been a guiding light in my life for over 60 years. Every day in these troubled times in which we live, I am so very grateful for the many gifts I have been given. You, sweet friend, were and are a miraculous, mysterious gift that i cherish. Everyday I dance and your spirit moves with me. Walking with my delightful dog who shows me how to enjoy every moment. So often I think of you. Memories slip into my days. Just sayin’. You inspired me, charmed me, endured me. The buoyancy lifted me and continues the process. And now, thanks again for reminding us that to save out very planet, peace and justice must be the underpinning of day to day connections. Love you, dear one. May love teach us to practice peace and justice for our world.

    Go well, stay well,
    Lynne Van Dam

  188. Anna, Happy Sweet Birthday to an Amazing Woman! Words cannot describe how touched my heart has been over the last few years after I was given the honor of dancing with you on your deck for your week long workshop, The dancer was re-united with self in nature with profound exuberance and healing. You offered a place at the table of life and I am re-imagining how I will use movement to heal as you have so inspired us. Blessings!

    I will run and dedicate the planetary dance this year to social justice and for all the children in the world living in disparity.

  189. Dear Anna – It is an honour to be able to wish you Happy Birthday at 100! Thank you for the many hours of creative learning & movement experiences in the 1970’s. My time at the studio truly changed my life. I will always remember you with great appreciation and love.

  190. Happy 100th Birthday Anna. I’m looking forward to the Planetary Dance Online tomorrow. I never had an opportunity to take place in person. This will be quite a ritual for all of us around the globe. HOW AMAZING. Thank you for all that you’ve given to our world through your artistry and teachings.

    My dream did come true and I was able to dance with you on the deck and take part in the life transformational Life/Art Process workshop in the summer of 2017. I’ve never been the same dancer. You were “unforgettable” as Daria says. I’m so very grateful to have had a chance for you to lead our creative movement experiences. The circle gathers each morning with you and all the lovely beings from all over the planet and your amazing way of getting us connected gently and intimately with the trees and wind as well as rooted into our bodies, mind, and souls. It seemed like magic to me. It really has imprinted on me so deeply. I loved that phrase you said repeatly, “a good teacher sees… good teachers sees their students.” I’ve forever been affected by your wonderful undeniable truths and sensory and creative awakenings.

    Also, in 2017, it was the anniversary of the summer of Love. I explained to you that I was going to Bali and would take dance there and hopefully teach. I was offered a postiion to teach and I’m grateful for that experience which followed up my time with you and Rorsario. So, today I’m very grateful for all the trails you’ve blazed. I’m sending so much love and radiant light your way. Peace, Lyn-Dell

    I have thought about what I’m running for tomorrow and I’d like to run for Peace and for everyone to reach deep in and return home into our soul-homes — for mental (holistic) health. As so many are experiencing truama/anxiety from many issues today. I’d like to run for Peace to help bring calm to those in need and with my embodiment tomorrow I’d like to share love for all of the world’s spirits and all souls to work out any part of our/their stories that need integrating so that all will move into a collective whole-ness and one-ness.

  191. Dearest Anna , your Training in 1986 changed my life. I moved to the US from Germany and devoted my work to your teachings.Happy happy Birthday , your Life has blessed us all. May you have a wonderful day, much love
    Annette Guionnet

  192. Dear Anna

    Happy Birthday!! Thank you for dancing and creating a path in which many people, like me, can be inspired! My dance goes to all women and children who need love and hope to move on!

  193. Happy Birthday, Anna. I met you once 50 years ago
    when I was a student who participated in your dance at City Center, NYC. Your spirit has seeded throughout the world.

    This year I run for all those who may not be able to walk or run, or see or speak, who the world may consider “limited” but whose spirits know no bounds.

  194. Dear Anna Halprin, Thank you for opening so many ways
    through which we can dance… you are a guide for several generations in different places!
    Your dance connects us and makes us feel part of the same world!!!

  195. Happy 100th Birthday Anna!

    I treasure the class I took with you. The rain surrounded us, as we spiraled and drew on the floor in your inspiring presence. Thank you!

    My son and I will dance to celebrate you, and for justice at Aquatic Park, in the morning before your wonderful annual event, when we will Zoom together, moving for justice and peace.

    Thank you for always reminding us that we live together in and with the earth.

    much love, Lynn

  196. I have loved dancing with you, from the city dances in the 70s to climbing the mountain and the first planetary dance, to the last time we dance together on the deck.
    Almost 50 years ago you told me I was a dancer and I believed you.
    Thank you for the interview for Bay Area ArtBeat.
    I’m sending a photo of us from your art opening at the California Historical Society to Jahan.

  197. Dearest Anna, you are such a force of nature that could not be stopped! You have given your life to bringing humans back into our soma bodies, back into the very nature and essence of what movement is and how it brings to life expression in an authentic way, allowing all of nature, the environment, political issues & the spirit to come alive, be felt and seen. Your 100 years on this planet gifted generations of us to inquire deeply into understanding of how important Improvisation is to invite the organic interactive self into relationship without performative pretense. You have shown light onto so many issues of the day the continue to be relevant throughout the decades and stood by all the process and work in powerful art despite many criticisms to the contrary particularly in your early years. I will never forgot singing/ sounding in the performance you did on Aids. We have heard your strong voice, your incredible spirit leading us into the woods, into enormous human spirals which we will keep doing to call out who needs to be lifted up. And I will, we will never forget you. I deep honor to have worked with you, have you be one of my great teachers and long time friend. Sending you big love on your next big journey.

  198. Dear Anna,

    sensing with my feet,
    listening to the whisper of the trees,
    being moved by the winds and the waves,
    shaping the rocks,
    reflecting the play of light and shadow,
    wild dances with seaweed,
    coming in deep relationship with the inner and outer nature.

    I remember so many touching moments dancing in nature with you.

    Thank you so much Dear Anna :))

    Happy Birthday for your Jubilee Anniversary.

    I am running for mother earth, for nature to recover and heal.

  199. The first time I joined the Planetary Dance we all attended a mutli-day preparation workshop at Redwood High School. The morning of the Dance itself I was part of the runners that came up from Muir Beach. Since then I have had 3 children and brought them at various times… I still remember my oldest (now 23) making his dedication at age 6 or 7 – then joining the circle to run. I have sometimes come to the ceremonial sunrise on top of the moutain (complete with ceremonial hot chocolate afterwards) and last year I was at the Muir Beach sunrise ceremony in all its richness and vitality. The tradition is deeply etched in my psyche through the various years. I will deeply miss this ritual and am so glad to join again via online tomorrow.

  200. Happy Birthday, Anna
    I’m forever grateful for being in your classes as a child.
    Run, run, run—leap! still lives within me.
    Much love,
    Abby

  201. Dear Anna (Grandmother and Guide to the Creative Expression coming forth from my Soul)~

    I celebrate YOU on your 100th Birthday for the bright light that you are. For your inner vision and for seeing and guiding all those drawn to you to learn; more about themselves, their lives and how they can best cultivate their gifts and skills to serve and make a difference in the world.

    You have been one of the GREATEST GIFTS of my life. Thank you!

    This year, I run for ALL who are healing from family, social and cultural oppression. May they find their voice and their dance.

  202. Anna has been a role model for me for the past 30 years. Her relentless activity to promote social justice through the integration of dance and art, mind and body, has both inspired and scared me. Her drive reminds me too much of myself.

    In the first decade of the 21st century, my husband and I served on her daughter Daria’s Tamala Board. Over the years, we attended her performance featuring dancers with AIDs. I participated in her dance class with my friend who was recovering from cancer, and attended several tributes to her to her husband Lawrence Halprin, who, side by side with Anna, promoted social justice in his architecture and design processes.

    In the 2nd decade of the 21st century, I featured Anna celebrating age through a perfomance of The Courtesan and the Crone at the Poetics of Aging Conference and at an Oakland elder community. Last year, I visited Anna with my family and featured The Tamalpa Institute at a Creative Aging SF event. Anna is my heroine.

    I am glad Anna is more peaceful at this stage of her life. She continually demonstrates the ability to develop oneself at all ages, stages and abilities. My wish for Anna’s July 13, 2020 100 birthday Planetary Dance celebration is to share peace and justice from the inside out.

  203. Dear Anna
    My deepest gratetude for your pioniering and endless life/art inspiration to the word community of dance and the interdiciplinary arts.
    Blessings from the depth of my heart for your 100th. birthday!
    I`ll run for people of all colours who are in need of the real presence for one another in this challenging pandemic times.

  204. Happy, Happy 100th Birthday, Anna! I dance to celebrate you and to join with everyone in the critical fight for social justice. My adult daughter joined me for the wonderful Planetary Dance 7 years ago, and we will be dancing together on Zoom though we are 800 miles apart right now. Through dance, we will feel connected to you, to each other, and to everyone who participates in the 2020 Planetary Dance in honor of your 100th birthday. Much love and appreciation to you for all you’ve done and continue to do to make the world a better place for everyone!

  205. dear anna, thank your for letting me find a home / heimat on your dancedeck, in nature and on the pomo reservation. i love you and i run for you, for lorin and for black lives matter. be well my friend, xoxox

  206. Anna, Happy 100th!!! I was one of the children who delighted in dancing on your deck and in your studio (around 1960-64). I lived on Diablo Drive and would travel up Goodhill in my purple leotard to the dance lessons. You instilled a body awareness in that little body that remains with me even today at age 64. In my body, I can feel the trees swaying in the wind and the relaxation of a sleepy puppy. I remember you picking up my body to see how relaxed I was and telling me that puppy still could relax more. Oh, what valuable lessons!!! I returned to dance again with you when you were 90. So wonderful to return to the beautiful deck and studio and your inspiration. Thank you for your wonderful way of Being.

  207. Dear Anna, tomorrow you will celebrate your 100th birthday. Be blessed with deep love!

    As a visitor at the end of January 2018 after almost having been lost on the mountain streets around in the dark I finally found you in your home before the dance class started that evening. It had only been a limited moment as moments usually are limited regarded time-wise. You were sitting on the steps of the stairs in the house. I stood besides and we looked at each other. You wanted to know my name and showed me your appreciation about my courage and coming that long way from Germany. And I was happy that I came and even more happy to meet you at this moment.

    Never before I have taken part in the planetary dance. I will try for the first time. I think about the people who are untouched right now. I will run for the hope that they will not be forgotten and touched again soon tenderly.

  208. Hi Anna,
    Happy 100th birthday to you from all of the Hediger Yap family. Your commitment to the creative force and courage to stand up against ignorance inspires me again and again.
    I dedicate my run to the healing of our planet. Aho
    Frank and family

  209. Dear Anna,

    Thank you so much for opening up this year’s Planetary Dance to the online community. I’m thrilled to get the chance to join it from London, UK. I will run for my sister, and for those who are navigating difficult times. I hope they find inner peace, to approach the coming weeks and months with more serenity. I wish you a wonderful year ahead at the powerful age of 100. As my practice grows and follows some of your footsteps, you are inspiring me to cultivate it in a sustainable and meaningful way. Thank you for leading the way.

  210. Dear Anna, a wonderful, happy and marvellous 100th birthday to you. Congratulations! Your work has inspired me very much and has changed my life. It was a great pleasure to meet you and work with you and to carry the spirit of your planetary dance into the world.

    “I run for the people who are lonely and left behind in the corona crisis, who are scared and afraid and who need a hug and hope and love in their hearts.”

    Much Love, Brigitte (Munich, Germany)

  211. Thank you Anna for sharing your wisdom, your ideas and for building such an amazing peace loving community. Thank you for teaching me so much about the creative process and sharing how you work. It was wonderful to see how you honored Lawrence Halprin with Spirit of Place, how the score responded to the values, visions and ideas embodied in his design for Stern Grove. Throughout your life you’ve been a force for understanding, health and the appreciation of Nature. Your generosity in giving to the community creates true spiritual wealth that we all share.

  212. Anna, I celebrate your birth and your life with a heart overflowing with love and gratitude. Thank you for inviting me into the core of my being and encouraging me to make my offering from that place. I love you!

  213. Happy birthday, Anna. You have inspired wonderful healing in me and our world. I run for the release of the body at a time that so many people are experiencing feeling stuck. Releasing with raised arms and a “Pow!”💥🕺🏻

  214. Dearest Anna, You lit up the world, in our bodies, in our hearts, in our minds, in our souls. We carry your flame in our lives. I carry your flame in my work with the people I work with whose souls are suffering. The dance of Anna connects them back into the Temple. To be themselves again, to return to the art of their own life, to feel all the feelings, and move back into life. I miss you, dear Anna, and the joy of moving with you. You freed so much in me and gave me the inspiration to have right livelihood and a life in my body as my art form. I thank you with every fiber in my being. I dance for all beings on the planet to be honored as they are.

  215. Dear Anna! Happy 100th Birthday!!!
    Thankyou for being such a strong beacon of creativity and hope in my life and for so many! I send you all my love!
    I run for my pregnant daughter and my yet unborn grandchild. May they have the opportunity to live in an enviroment with healthy nurturing relations with the natural world and peace and social justive in human world.

  216. Happy 100th, Anna Halprin. While I have never had the opportunity to meet you, you have been an inspirational voice in my Encore Career. I run for all my friends and acquaintances who have suffered from racial and/or social injustice. May our future witness brighter days.

  217. Happy 100th Birthday Dearest Anna! Thank you so much for all of your dedication to Dance, Art, Peace and Healing for the Planet. I was so fortunate to be your student and receive your mentorship. Stay Healthy, Happy and Safe.
    All my Love,

    Meredythe Dee Winter

  218. Anna, I celebrate you and the blessing of your 100 years on earth! I am so honored to have danced with you at Mountain Studio and will remain forever grateful and inspired by our meeting.
    I dedicate my Plantary Dance for you, the mother of my dear friend and sister, Daria, and my own Mother, for peace and transformation through the Divine Feminine.
    I love you! Sue

  219. Happy 100, Anna!

    I met you in 2012 when we invited you down to San Diego for the Coming of Age Film Festival, which we opened with the documentary about you, “Breath Made Visible.” You danced before the screening, and at the workshop you gave that weekend, I had my first taste of the Planetary Dance.

    Thanks so much for including me in this one! We certainly need global healing right now. I’ll be lighting an aromatherapy candle a friend gave me that I was saving for a special occasion. It says on the bottom: Believe. And I do believe that together, this July 13th, we can make a difference, and send out vibrations that will help to spread peace, justice and kindness around our world.

    You said in the film: “I danced for the fun of it…I danced to rebel, I danced for social justice…If I was going to dance, I wanted to dance about real things.” I’m happy to have the chance join you in all that today.

  220. How blessed I am Anna, having danced in your sacred space. Thank you for recollecting the shattered bodies of our collective conscious ness. When I write about the human soul, as body, I am ever aware of your re-gifting of the body to each and all of us. Thank you

  221. I run for the absolute healing of my daughter Isa. May all the people present at her next surgery be healing for her. And I run for all children of this earth, that they may grow up in love and physical contact with each other, of course.

  222. For dear Anna, Happy 100th birthday and a big thank you from one of your Tamalpa trainings graduates 1983-4. No question you have enriched my life in dance in so many ways, some of which I hope I have succeeded in passing on!
    I remember doing the Planetary Dance with you on Mount Tamalpais 2002. For this year 2020, I dedicate my run to my colleagues and friends of black, indigenous and people of colour communties who are disproportionatle hit by Covid-19. I run for justice for them.
    Much love as always to you Anna,
    from Libby (Libby Worth)

  223. I bless you and deeply honor you on your 100th birthday today Anna. The beauty of your visionary dances are a gift to the world Today I dance like a flag raised for equality for all people, and the residence of the human spirit and of Mother Earth. I dance consciousness, the end of racism, and greed that harms every soul and our Mother earth. I dance peace, compassion, and loving kindness.

  224. Congratulations on 100 years of creativity and teaching, which has revealed to me and many thousands of others the possibility of dance.

    This year I am dancing for this land that we live on and which has been assigned to me safe-guard and to treasure; and which has nurtured Melinda and me, and our tribe, during this crazy time of shelter-in-place;
    and I am dancing for the safe-guarding of all nature on this planet, that it will nurture ALL people.

  225. My heartful gratulations to you Anna 🙂 Happy happy birthday dear Anna – how wonderful to be with you on your 100th birthday here on earth – on the EARTH RUN. My blessings to you and your family. Iam deeply inspired about your courage and wisdom creating LifeArt and the Art of Life – bringing different worlds together and creating new seeds that are blossoming and blossoming ….. My heart is always touched and deeply inspired as well and my soul is singing its song because of your lifeCreation. Heartful thank you and wishing you and your family, your dearest heartconnected souls accompaigning you in joy and wisdom of life and in the spirit of beeing where we all come from and where we all go back home again, my blesings to you 🙂 love and light, lightness in the ways of transformation and the joy of being, Claudia (Tamalpa 2010/2011 Level 1 and 2) Germany/Weinheim
    MY DEDICATION for the EARTH RUN:
    Iam running to fullfill my soul- and heartpath in this life. And Iam running for all beeings – beeing always connected in spirit, listening and manifesting the HeartBeat of their soul.

  226. Nobody saw you in the picture
    your finger on the shutter button
    in that moment building a bucket for their love.
    Clustered bodies wavered on extended tendrils, reflecting sunlight
    under the circle of redwoods Larry left.

    About to be sheltered in place, bent upside-down to the root,
    socially distanced to flatten looming curves
    you pinch yourself in gratitude
    for the dancer she saw in you.

    Anna who never quit,
    Anna who never sold out her mission.
    Anna who never gave up on you but kept on
    putting you in the picture.

    Now silence drifts down from there
    where virtual hugs gather to surround her
    for lifetimes of lessons on the Dance Deck.
    For the dance

  227. Dear Anna, You have been so important to me through out my life especially as a non-verbal shy little 5 year old girl who needed a way to express herself.
    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
    Because of you my life has been about generating love of movement in nature inspired by the years
    at Sea Ranch where you took us into the Redwoods to dance for hours and days.

    I vow to always be in the dance of Life/Art, to bring the keys of this healing work to my community, to Dance for Peace for the rest of my life.

    I run for my grandkids and all middle school KIDS OF COLOR that they may grow up learning how to communicate in a WORLD OF PEACE & JUSTICE FOR ALL.

  228. This year I run for Athena, granddaughter of a close friend, and all newly born Black children, may they grow up in a world where Black lives truly matter. Thank you, Anna, for all the inspiration, support, wisdom, and frienship you have given me and so many others.

  229. I Dance for the Freedom and Peace for Everone. For the right to be what Color we are, for the right to Love who we love, for the Right of Education for everyone !

  230. Dear Anna , Thank you for your endless curiosity, your perseverance and your knowing that we ARE nature.
    What comes to me is the phrase, “One heck of a life lived!”
    I am so grateful for the life changing opportunity you gave me to live in the studio as I studied at Tamalpa all those years ago. I used to hear the boards creak in the silence of the night and imagined all the dancers over decades who had breathed in their inspiration there still dancing and I joined them.We shared the mountain with the bluejays, the deer, a skunk and some cheeky raccoons reminding us we were ‘among’ always.
    I dance here in Findhorn in Scotland for you Anna and for all those before you and those after you now carrying forward the torch of the power of dance as a tool for understanding and giving value to all life on this planet and for our ability to change human experience especially now in ending discrimination and injustice.Le gra

  231. Happy Birthday Anna.

    I was deeply touched by level 1 in Germany and i want to start level 2 soon.

    I run for open hearts, peace in the world and our children.

  232. Happy Birthday Anna! Thank you for the fresh, enthusiastic response you give to every new dance by every new person who comes to be guided by you. Thank you for seeing and hearing me and all of us. Today I dance for all the people who will carry on your spirit and your passion for planetary healing.

  233. Happy Birthday, Anna.

    While dropping in edgewise a little note in prevision of those beautiful celebrations to come, I cannot help thinking of the sweat words you’d once for me as it is now my turn to send one out to you.

    Right upon being notified of this bundle of great news, I thought of a particular sentence showcased in the preface of a collection of essays by French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. It wasn’t that hard to retrieve the sample.
    Please allow me to briefly recast a loose translation of this sentence here. It will serve as a form of assisted-tribute, just because it rings so true today.

    “The centennial of someone’s birth is by itself rare enough so that it’s plenty worth to be celebrated. It also presupposes that aside and beyond that person’s work, the continuation of his existence thence makes it akin to a form of survival.”

    Glad that I could somewhat put this sentence into good use. Now seen in a broader context, I also hope that these well-wishing lines, among countless others already piling up before your doorstep, shall find you in tremendous health and spirit.

    And now, let’s give life and the Earth altogether another spin and let worldwide celebrations in your honor begin. I can’t think of other centenaries more deserving than you to be feted all across the orb on that particular day.
    Without a doubt and from Paris, I will attend the event on zoom. Looking forward to seeing you “vicariously”, surrounded by members of the Halprin diaspora.

    Thus my dedication on that occasion goes to extending the respect to the animal kingdom in our times and I will meditate to that end,

    Meanwhile, very best from here to there.

  234. Dear Anna,
    thank you so much for teaching, loving, being curious. Sending 100 blessings to you for each year of your life. With your work you gave a lot of people home. Me too. The home in my own body. Which is the most important home a human being can ever gonna get.

    I run and dance for celebrating, appreciating and integrating female energies and qualities all over the planet. So girls and women and our Earth can live in peace and freedom and joy.

  235. I dance for the refugees on the Greek islands and for all the people looking for a safe place to live their lifes.
    With a deep thankfulness for Anna‘s inspiration and for the chance to meet her personally in her class with Brian Collentine 3 years ago.
    Love and blessings for you, Anna, and greetings from Germany.
    May you be born and reborn again …
    Gritta Lange

  236. From Sea Ranch in the 80’s to Stern Grove in 2008, from Mt. Home Studio to Marin General Hospital working with cancer patients you have helped me find the epicenter of creativity and its usefulness in serving others. The tools I learned in the Tamalpa Training gave structure and freedom in creating dances, working with people in the hospital in ministry and scoring my own life process. I don’t even know how to begin to thank you and Daria, I guess the best thank you is to keep on creating and collaborating with others for a more embodied and just world. This year I dance for planting 1Billion trees with TreeSisters. Inspiration from you and back again…Rev. Katharine Harts

  237. Dear Anna,
    I’m wishing you joy, on your 100th birthday. On your birthday I will dance for the interdependence of all beings. That we might see and treat each other as equals, as beloveds. I dance that true harmony in community for all might be our new reality. With gratitude. I love you. Marguerite Etemad

  238. Happy 100th Birthday dearest Anna.
    Thank you for all you do and for making the world a better place to live.

    This year I run for all black children. May they feel safe, heard, seen, supported, and loved in their communities and around the world.

  239. Happy 100th, Anna. I always remember the class I took with you when I was a child. I have followed you for years and so enjoy your contribution to our world. Love, Zoe Harris

  240. Happy 100th Birthday dearest Anna. You are beyond an inspiration on how to live a life. Thank you for everything you’ve done to make this world a better place.

    This year I run for all black children. May they feel safe, heard, seen, supported, and loved in their communities and in this world.

  241. Dear Anna,
    I write for the three of us – who are Tamalpa Germany: We stand in gratitude and celebrate you! Happy Incredible 100th Birthday!
    You are for us the root and origin of our dance.
    Your work gave birth to our branch.
    Your roots have always given us support and food for what is our destiny.
    To have these roots is a great honor and gives us the strength for our path.
    We bow before you and thank you for all that you have given us and the world.
    May your soul always feel freedom and love!

    “I run for the old people who are alone in hospitals and nursing homes, waiting in vain for a hug.”

    All our love to you
    Petra for Tamalpa Germany
    (Frank, Katrin, Petra)

  242. I run for a friend and for all people in emotional turmoil to find peace within.
    Thank you Anna for dancing your two-sided selfportrait with full intensity which inspires me to do the same.
    And thank you & Larry for creating such a studio in the mountain where I felt home, the minute I stepped in.
    Blessings to you and your last dance.
    I will play the horn across the ocean…

  243. Dearest Anna,

    Five years ago, when I was fighting to defeat my cancer, a friend sent me links to your videos.

    From the very moment I discovered the wonderful person you are, the fact that you defeated cancer yourself and the way you did it through your art, I had only one objective : to cure to be able to visit you at Tamalpa and be healed learning the Life Art Process. Because I was sure that that meeting would definitely heal my body and my mind. And it happened.

    And I achieved my dream when, two years ago, I travelled from Madrid to Kentfield to take part in the Summer Workshop. After working and learning so much during the week from your daughter Daria, you shared the last day with us. That day, my dream had come true. And it was even more wonderful that all I had imagined before watching you coming down the stairs to join us on the deck.

    You are such a blessing in my life, Anna. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

    This year I planned to attend the Planetary Dance in California. I will be there with my heart and my spirit. I will run for you my dear Anne, wishing you a wonderful birthday and I will run for people being aware that we need to love each other, all of us, no matter our country, no matter our origin, no matter the colour of your skin. We are all Love.

    Happy birthday to you, Anna!

    Pascale-Lora Schyns

  244. Happy birthday Anna. I feel lucky to have had the opportunity to meet you, your journey is so rare and inspiring. My dedication is for harmony in relationships among humans and between humans and all other forms of life .

  245. Dearest Anna, every Wednesday morning, I watched your come down to the studio from your home and then go up again like a ritual. You are the symbol of determination, sensitivity and artistic expression of awareness for me. Happy Birthday 🏵🌻🌸
    I run for a world where all differences, colors are accepted and all lives are matter.

  246. I run for all who have been inspired by your teaching. May our wishes for you & the Planet
    be heard in the sound of every drum beat!

  247. Dearest Anna, I run to celebrate you and all people who fight for social justice – thank you for being the light you are in this world.
    Learning from you and dancing with you had changed my life. I am forever blessed to know you.
    You are an inspiration and a source of joy and curiosity! I love you !

  248. Anna,
    through all the parades and changes, circles are never broken- your foot prayer here has ignited and inspired so many many to return, remember, begin in heartbeats home…together! 100 years begin again! Circle on in love Anna!
    I run for the souls departing 2020 through disease or injustice, and I run for the healing of ancestors and descendents, as a bridge for peace here through us all

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    : July 13, 2020: Monday
    To: Anna Halprin
    • Happy 😃 💯 th Birthday 🎂,
    • Happy 😃 Planetary 🌍 Peace ☮️ Dance 💃 🕺,
    Love 💕,
    Benito Santiago & Senior Dancing 💃 🕺 Crew: Benita Gonsalvez Aviles & Sir Phillip Corpuz

  250. Dear Anna,

    Happy Birthday! I am sending a lot of love and a big virtual hug your way. You are one of my greatest teachers and for that I thank you. Thank you Anna.

  251. Happy Birthday dearest Anna!
    How incredibly fortunate I am to have met you at the summer workshop in 2017 and danced with you – it was one of these deep deep dreams that wanted to be fulfilled. I am very grateful, that everything fell into place at my 60th birthday, the flight was booked and I was given the chance to dance on the magic deck with your wise, beautiful, inspiring presence full of humor and sparkling ideas.
    You touched my heart deeply and I never ever will forget the soulful depth of your dance and your sharing! Thank you thank you thank you!
    I will dance and run for all the elders of the world – may they be surrounded with love and respect, freedom and recognition. May their wisdom change the world.
    Much love to you – Andrea from Switzerland

  252. Anna, I run for your Israeli and Palestinian sisters who miss you and keep you in our hearts as we walk on the Goldman Promenade in Jerusalem that Larry designed and build trust to make peace prevail in the Holy Land

  253. Dear Anna,
    I wish you a happy birthday. As a dancer & Tamalpa student, I feel so much inspired by your artistical work connected with life, nature, society & care. Thank you for the light you bring to the world.
    My dedication for the Planetary dance is “love, inner peace & transformation for myself, my family and communities”

  254. I run for my Black grandsons, so they and all brothers and sisters of color may be truly free to live the lives they choose.

  255. Anna,
    You are my shero, my mentor, my grandmother in-residence, my inspiration. Thank you for showing us all how to connect deeply with nature, each other, ourselves. The Universe became *extra* blessed the moment you were born. I honor your devotion to racial equity, radical creativity, environmental stewardship, embodied justice. I love you so, so much! love, deb cohan ps. Here’s to a new President during the year of your 100th birthday!

  256. There is no one else like Anna. I have been honored to be her friend for eleven years.
    We are two art-ships moving side by side through roiling/waving/mirror-smooth waters. She gets me and I get her, and that is the most enduring of gifts.
    Happy birthday my dear friend. May you enjoy the love that dances all around you and let it give you strength to meet the times ahead. One of the ones who loves you is the planet Earth. She knows you get her and she gets you. Another is Mt. Tamalpais who loves us both.

  257. Dear Anna HAPPY BIRTHDAY!🌼
    With all my heart I want to thank you for your work and inspiration for people. Thank you for giving people hope and happiness.
    I wish you health, joy and energy! 💖
    I am very happy that I found out about you and your works.
    It is a pity that your books have not yet been translated into Russian. Fortunately words are not needed for dance.
    Sorry my poore english.
    With love from Russia.🌞

  258. Dearest Anna, you dance the essence of things and always have and giving it over to me and thousands of others. Life changing experiences. Grateful beyond measures. BIG HUG and congratulations for your 100 years of spirited life.

  259. This year, I run for the Radical Reimagining of a society with economic and social justice and for the Tamalpa graduates around the globe to continue their work. They are essential.

  260. I did a lot of the set up and clean up at your 60th birthday party when I was living below the studio. I won’t be able to make it this year so I hope you have that covered. Meeting you as a young adult was my life’s lucky break. You taught me a personal creative process that I have utilized in everything I do. I am just one of the thousands and thousands of people you have touched in a profound way. My body, mind and the collective spirit of all of us thank you, and wish you a happy 100th birthday.

  261. I first knew you as Ann. That was when I was four and you were . . . what? A bunch of our moms organized the Marin Dance Co-op so you could teach us on Saturday mornings at the Larkspur Corte Madera Rec Center. Doris Dennison played the piano for us as you turned us into trees and flowers and wind and giraffes. Many of us from that long ago time will be with you for the Planetary Dance from all over the country. You gave us the gift of believing in ourselves and in believing in giraffes. Thank you, Anna, and may your 100th be as joyous as all the many others.

  262. for Anna

    Pacific Ocean is a threshold
    Golden key, he did hand her
    She did open, blue rolling night
    Grandfather dancing in waves of light.
    Soul compass, never captured
    Round planet, holds the imprints
    The ones she loves and each and everyone
    Her name a treasure, yet she has just begun
    Pulsing heart of drum
    Radiating inner sun.

    with all my heart,
    Casey

  263. grateful for your teachings and for the gift of the Earth Run, a universal embrace that connects us with eachother and with nature for ever.Let’s keep dancing from the heart! A heart embrace Anna!

  264. When I arrived at San Francisco Airport in 1996 to start my Tamalpa training, I was waiting, sitting on my luggage to be picked up reading Annas story watching her Grandfather dancing with a long shawl in the synagogue when she was a little girl. At that moment I so longed to see this Grandfather for myself. A few months later I was in luck: you Anna brought your Grandfather to life and my longing was satisfied. That year I ran the Earth Run the first time and brought it to Germany the following year. Happy Birthday Anna, your work has been the greatest gift to my life! Now I live in Australia, so in my Earth run this year I will run for justice for aboriginal deaths in custody, truth telling now and that the Uluru statement from the heart will lead to a country that honors the first nation and embraces the rich culture of this country.

  265. Happy Birthday Anna! 2 years ago I visited from the UK, attended your sessions at the Mountain studio and the events at de Young Museum. I am forever grateful for your all your teachings and everything you gifted to dance, art and life. I will run during the Planetary Dance for gratitude to all the practices that nurture connectedness, ecology and relationality; and in support of everyone who is fighting for human and planetary equality and justice. Hugs, Vanessa

  266. Dearest Anna,

    I remember meeting you in 1969, as I was part of your apprenticeship training. You inspired me with your fearless expression of the body, and also with your deeply Jewish soul.

    There are few like you, and your light is immense.

    Much love and always your student and friend,

    Ilene

  267. Anna, your work, life and dance has inspired me from the first moment I saw you and your work. Thank you for all the amazing gifts you have been bringing into the world. With Love and Light

  268. Dear Anna,
    Talking with you and Larry among the redwoods and later dancing on the deck was one of the memorable experiences of my career and a lesson in the power of serendipity It also helped me fall in love with California. Thank you and Happy Birthday from Ashley Falls Massachusetts.

  269. in 1975, you sent me a postcard
    (after the 2week summer Dancer’s Workshop) that said,
    “i am with you in spirit…”
    and every time you saw me you would say Hi Cathy.
    how lucky i am. thank you. i love you.
    love, cathy

  270. Happy 100th Anna! I run for Black Lives Matter. I run for equality, justice, compassion, fairness, and love. Thank you so much for all that you have given so generously to the world of art and healing, for shifting the meaning of dance for so many of us, and for being a beautiful, honest, and real mentor and friend in art and life. I love you Anna!

  271. May your dances continue to resonate on this living earth and inspire others to move from within… Infinite blessings and gratitude for your work. Happy New Beginning!

  272. Anna,
    Seeing you last March at my Other Minds Concert was the highlight of the trip for me!
    Love you as always – your spirit is shining through. Much love
    Pauline

  273. ANNA, I REMEMBER SEEING YOU DANCE THIS GREAT DANCE AT STERN GROVE IN THE LATE 40’S CONGRATULATION AND MUCH LOVE AD GRATITUDE FOR ALL YOU \’VE DEVELOPED AND GIVEN TO OUR DANCE COMMUNITY. ROBERTA, SANTA CRUZ

  274. Dear Anna,
    your inspiration keeps on living in the dances I dance, the songs i sing, in all the ways I am touching nature.
    Thank you, Anna, and happy Birthday!!
    Blessings and love,
    Regina

  275. Happy Birthday Dear Anna, you are one of the most inspirational women in my life. The Spirits sent you into this world! God bless you.

  276. When you were created they broke the mold! Keep dancin’ and know that we are carrying your spirit forth!
    Many happy returns of the year!

  277. Although we have never met, I feel your far spread, fascinating influence while working with Suprapto Suryodarmo in Java and Europe. With all best wishes and many thanks.

    Steve

  278. Many Happy Returns from the Himalayas of India. In early January 2002 I attended an all day workshop given at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco – you were magic!! Then six weeks of your classes allowed me to have the “Halprin Experience” – so grand. Thank you for your inspiring presence in my life. Anna Louisa in Kalimpong, West Bengal

  279. many blessings to you on your 95th birthday! someone once gave me a dress they said had belonged to you, so i feel as if i have been dancing with you for many years. long may you dance, beautiful person!

  280. Dearest Anna, We first met in 1979 when my mother Martha brought you, Daria and Rod to Topeka, Kansas to give a workshop at the Menninger Foundation, and we danced together many times through the 1980’s, culminating in a trip to Bali. It’s been many years since we connected, but I want you to know your impact on my life and creative expression has been enormous. Shortly before my mother Martha died of cancer in 2013, we watched the documentary “Breath Made Visible,” and felt such gratitude for the times we have shared with you. Bless you for being a beacon of truth in movement, a presence and force for healing in this world. Mazel Tov on sharing your light with us for 95 years! Many blessings, Colette

  281. My Dear Friend Anna (since around 1963), you are a living magic wand! I cherish our visits together. See you this coming August! With love & light, from Jeff, in Paris

  282. Dear Anna, I have been thinking of you for days, weeks, months. Waiting for the words to arrive. Being grateful for your presence and inspiration in my life, for the wisdom of the Planetary Dance and for the courageous study of the always moving~changing organisms we inhabit, their stories, memories, rising and falling and rising again, breathing, laughter, sorrows and intricate resiliency. Thank you for your constant curiosity, tenderness, humor and elegant way to deeply dance and be danced by life. Happy Birthday! I love you!

  283. Dear Anna,
    I will remember… all ways… 95 birthday celebration… 95 hoop revolutions around your hips ritual… and the more than 95 ways I love and appreciate you. Still celebrating YOU. xo, Cindy

  284. Dear Anna,

    I met you only once in Paris, joining a Workshop (while Ruedi got pics for his film…) But these days with you and your work were unforgettable and inspiring for my whole life…

    All the best for you to your birthday from the bottom of my heart! Good health and lots of light moments!

    Michaela Baumberger, Switzerland

  285. How grand and dignified you are, dear dear Anna! Happy Birthday! One day I might finally meet and “dance” with you. Love, Karin Amann, CH

  286. Dear Anna,

    Since finishing my Level 2 training in May, I have noticed the way I am living more artfully, as I draw upon the experiences I had learning your scores on the dance deck. The quality of my walk down a country road that I have taken many times is noticeably changed, deepened, and richer now. I am deeply grateful for the ways I feel a greater intimacy with life through my time with you.
    Much love and wishing you continued wellness, light and inspiration.

    Cassidy

  287. Dear Anna,

    I wish you a very happy ninety-fifth birthday, and many more to come. Currently I am sitting here in Zurich overlooking Lake Zurich and remembering the special movement exploration time I had with you.And one day you pointed out to me „…Peter watch your chest and your shoulders…“ and those words have accompanied my everyday movements, as our body’s posture is chaping our feelings and our feelings influence our body posture.

    I am very grateful to your teachings and having witnessed your artistic work whilst transforming out of a gathering group of people the most beautiful choreographic creations and touching peoples body’s mind and soul, I still feel treasured being part of Tamalpas movement world.

    To the birthday child you are, I convey my deep hearted wishes for your continuing creations, everlasting health and growing fulfillment:

    …move,

    …move,

    a new dress will be woven…

    with love,

    Peter, Zurich, July 2015

  288. I believe in living Angels: I found you serendipitously by an angel who guided me to the Tamalpa Institute 11 years ago. I had not heard of you or of it and here I was only right across the Golden Gate.
    You’ve given me many gifts in the past decade but the biggest is truly knowing that I am the choreographer of my life; that my every movement is a dance & to remember to keep on moving no matter what. Thank you for being a change angel in my life, Anna. Happy Birthday.

  289. Happy 95 Anna!!!! Celebrating your wisdom, grace, creativity, innovation, movement, and nature integration. Wishing you joy, longevity, happiness, serenity, and light. Blessings, Amy I.

  290. Happy Birthday, Anna! Thank you for being YOU! For inspiring me and so many others to be ourselves, express how we feel and what we know and what we don’t know and what might be possible. Thank you for bringing dancers outside into the wilds of nature and the city streets and our imaginations. May you continue to thrive!

  291. Happy Birthday Anna!!! Thank you for sharing your brilliant wisdom of the body!! Your knowledge & choice of words as you teach amazes me in every class! I look around and see bodies dancing with ease & grace having no prior dance experience. You have helped me become more familiar with my body and a much better teacher & therapist. You are my Mentor and I wish you a very Happy Birthday! May all your dreams come true! Love you,
    Amy Sabel

  292. Far away but could not miss such celebration! The seeds you planted are growing. By encouraging each and everyone of us to connect with the creative self, drop our inner barriers and dance our own dance freely, you are helping us become better human beings. Millions of thanks for who you are and what you give! And, of course, have a blast for your birthday!

  293. Dearest Anna: You have been a beacon, a lodestar, a model of infinite possibility for so many of us. I send bows of gratitude and leaps of joy on your birthday.

  294. You and your work has touched me deeply. You came for one day to my Feldenkrais training in San Rafael nearly 25 years ago. You had us lay on our backs with eyes closed and dance with our hands. I wept from the pure beauty of how that felt inside. Happy birthday Anna and thank you from the bottom of my heart. I bless the day you were born.

  295. Beloved Anna – happy, happy, happy, blessed and joyfilled 95th birthday! You inspired my live tremendously and Star Fire Mountain College Davos is a seed out of my great time at The Tamalpa Institute. I wish you all the very best and send you all my heart felt blessings. Keep up the good work. In joy and love and greatest thankfulness, Ladina from Switzerland

  296. I wish you a wonderful birthday dear Anna. I’m so touched by your work and the beautiful woman you are. I was very inspired by you and I feel love since the first time I met you.
    Lots of happiness for you dear Anna!
    Warm thoughts from France where we danced the planetary dance near the atlantic ocean.
    with lots of love for your birthday

  297. Listen to my heart’s song. I will never forget You, never forsake You..
    from our beginning in Dec1972 “suckin’,fuckin’ & truckin’ Wkshp.
    Many Happy Returns!

  298. Dear Anna,

    Thank you for sharing your wisdom and soul with us over these many decades. I am continually amazed and inspired by your work and see the world differently because of you!

    Have the best birthday!

    xo

  299. Happy Birthday Anna,
    Your vitality, aliveness and commitment to endless discovery of movement has inspired my body, teaching, and my approach to choreography through exploring brave movement pathways. I’m very grateful for your courage, endless joy, boundless creativity, open mindedness, use of nature and your graceful work. I will always be mindful of what you have given to our universe through your commitment to transformation – peace – and social transformation. I have worked through illness and grief also and used your methods of movement exploration. I hope to meet you one day and get out to your mountain home. It is a dream of mine! All the best always! Thank you and Love, Lyn-Dell

  300. Dear Anna, happy happy birthday to you.Dance and love and inspirations to you.Im so grateful that I could meet you.All the best,warm and magical wishes.Sibylla

  301. Dear Anna,
    We have never met but i was introduce to your work by Lakshmi Aysola. I feel so much gratefulness for that! Thank you for the present!

  302. Happy Birthday Anna,
    Thank you for embodying nature, knowledge,creativity and joy in such a beautiful dance.
    All my best wishes for you.
    I love you.

  303. Anna ~~ happy 95th!! Thank you endlessly for being such an inspiration for all of us all these years, and for me, individually~~I feel my creativity and soul was literally reborn thanks to Tamalpa Training 1989-90, and you, Daria and Jamie. Many blessings, always — Jo

  304. Anna, I have a real live card for you which I will bring on Sunday and place somewhere so you can actually touch it – the old fashioned greeting. I am so grateful for you, for all the inspiration and mostly for the generosity you have shared with me and others. You never stop giving your dance. With love, Adriana

  305. Dear Anna,
    wishing you a dancy Birthday like all days, you made me be not afraid of age and know in my heart there will always be dance movement constant movement. Thank you xx

  306. Dear Anna, all the best for you, dear teacher-dancer-naturleoving spirit! In Germany we have a children’s birthday song that carries a spark of the wonder of us being here: “Wie schön, dass Du geboren bist, wir hätten Dich sonst sehr vermisst” So beautiful, that you are born. We would have missed you otherwise! So grateful for having met in Zürich and then again at the Mt Tamalpais last June – May your grace, your sunshine, your heartbeat always feel like part of the universe – May life treat you with loving care, ANNA

    Kerstin (Cologne)

  307. Wonderful birthday to you, dear Ana and a very colourful year i wish you***
    I bow to you with grace … such a pleasure having met you once in Switzerland and your teachings i drank and drink like nectar.
    It is one meeting for lifetime and ever since.
    BLESS YOU

  308. lovely ANNA! what a wonderful being you are…thank you deeply for all you gave to me, in your workshop….WONDERFILLED LIFE , WITH YOU YOUR BELOVEDS AND THE WHOLE UNIVERSE…INSIDE ..OUTSIDE….LOVE SUNA

  309. May your day ( and YEAR) be filled with abundant gifts of Love, Joy, Dance, and ALL that brings you to Life ! ! ! ( I danced ‘Circle the Earth’ many years ago in Philadelphia.)

  310. ANNA! You are such an isnpiration and fountain of life giving bodily movements, movements that have been ingarined into music and the resultant has been a transformative wave that has swept the entire universe! You will never cease to inspire and amaze me!!
    Gwatirera

  311. I will miss the party but my heart will be with you & Sir Lawrence will be joining me from high above to embrace and thank you for your Love & the Dance for Life.

  312. Happy Birthday Anna! It pains me to miss your birthday celebration on Sunday for I will be teaching the life/art work in South Korea. I feel blessed, as so many have, to have learned to live life as a dance. May we get to celebrate your birthday with you for many more years to come!

  313. Inspiring Anna, May your spirit dance through the winds of time everlasting, and may your body dance along a longing to be FREE! Exhaling LOVE!!

  314. Dear Anna!!!! GRACIAS means thank u and i feel so thankfull to have been so blessed by learning from you! Such and amazing and vital example of a dancing woman wich loves life nature and humans. Such a big heart and awsome talent!!! May your lhere and now be always full of love!

    Big hug and blessings
    Carla Nivedita a student of yours

  315. Happy Birthday Anna,
    You’re an inspiration! I’m so grateful to have had the chance to learn from you, and hope to continue. Wishing you health and happiness!
    -Christine

  316. Hi Anna,
    I really admire you for creating such a unique vision for dance and sharing it with the rest of the world.
    I really enjoyed seeing you at the Planetary Dance event on Mt. Tamalpais. Even though I’ve haven’t yet met you, I feel as though as I know you (from a heart perspective).
    Thanks for introducing your dance technique to my wife, Margaret. Here’s to an Awesome, Healthy & Happy 95th Birthday!
    Love, Jeremiah Anderson

  317. Happy 95th birthday Anna! I’m grateful for you and your family. Your positive influence and teachings to delve into the inner life as a source of artistic expression will carry on in so many of us. With love, Abe

  318. You always inspire me Anna! Thank you four your dance and your internal-external revolution ! From Mexico-France with love, Paulina

  319. I feel extremely lucky. You are to me a mentor, a creative master, that works with land, birds sky and earth and dirt. I feel extreme recognition and profound respect bringing your work back to Venice, in Italy. We are channel of change.

    Grazie.

    AUGURI!

  320. Dear Anna – I only met you at the Movement Research benefit in New York last year, but I’ve read about you and followed your work from afar. You are an inspiration and a hero. I know the universe will bestow so much love upon you for this celebration. How honored we are to celebrate you! Much love and gratitude, Michelle

  321. Anna, during the last 41 years I’ve been honored to be your student, colleague and friend. You’ve inspired my body, my life, and my teaching. What a joy to watch you grow over these many years, to watch your impact spread through the world culture in response to your dancing wisdom. You are a light in my life. I love you, Suki

  322. Dear Anna, Thank you and Tamalpa for being my beyond words guides. How different my timescape looks and feels since I have begun traveling with you. With love and appreciation on your birth and every day!

  323. hola anna, happy pre birthday to you. i look forward to seeing you again, since our planetary peace dance. may you continue to enjoy dancing for love, peace, & healing happiness. happy dancing, 🙂 benito m. santiago (sfd/w multi ethnic dance theatre performance company: 1971-1976)

  324. Dear Anna, I am many years away now from you but my longing ist coming back and thanking you for those unforgettable days in your tree-home-dance-floor. Many years of good health and dancing to you and a lot of love floating around you in all the creativity you made possible – a big contribution to heal a little bit of this unconscious, fighting mankind. Rose

  325. Dearest Anna! Thank you for being such an immense inspiration, for making life an art and art a life. For teaching embodied movment, living and being. I am wishing you glorious celebrations. Much love, and sending you images of bright summer nights and a wiff of fresh mountain air from Norway. As we say up here: Hipp hipp hurra, hurra, hurra!!! Anne (:

  326. Dear Anna, With love and a sandy ocean dance from down here in the corner of England on our magic Cornish isle. Happy new year! Hope to meet in October at Daria’s weekend. luvluvluv Carole oxoxox

  327. Dear Anna,
    happy – happy – happy birthday to your!
    Without your wonderful spirit our work wouldn’t exist; without your wonderful work we wouldn’t have been able to pass on what we teach in Tamalpa Germany. We honor you and thank you for all you gave to us. We wish you many more wonderful dances with your family, friends and students. We wish you light, love and good health for your future. Love from Tamalpa Germany – from Petra, Katrin, Frank and from our students
    PS: We did a birthday video-clip for you – out of our “Performing Exhibition – Birthday Celebration”. We hope you could see it.

  328. Dear Anna,

    I want to thank you for showing up in my life when I needed the Life/Art process to transform a difficult time. Thank you for allowing me to apprentice with you during my Tamalpa training and to be a part of Spirit of Place. Thank you for the workshops and Thursday morning classes out on the dance deck. And most of all, thank you for modeling how to balance life and art, career and family, traditions and trailblazing. Sending gratitude and love, and wishing you a very happy birthday and many more.
    Elaine Rose

  329. I remember fondly our years sharing the building at 321 Divisadero and the many iinteractions with you, A.A., John and Lynn. Happy memories, all! And wishing you a happy dance into the triple digits, 100 years and beyond!

  330. Dear Anna!

    You continue to be a beautiful dancer and leader in the world! Thank you so much for all of your inspiration! I feel divinely special to know you and to have danced with you. Namaste Teacher. Love, Shantee

  331. Anna, you are such an inspiration of vitality and love! Your love for body expression has been inspiring me through out my life. I have learned to listen to my body when it wants to move and let it talk its language. I am grateful for the opportunity I had to meet you and be part of your workshop here in San Diego!!!
    love and light!!!

  332. Birthday greetings my dear Anna. I will never forget you for your early inspirations and kind support of my first photography book “Natural Dance”.You and Ruth Bernhard, both agelessly young, have been my most important artistic influences! With Love, Hal Eastman

  333. Your vitality and aliveness and love and grief and process and commitment to transformation and growth deeply inspire me on a daily basis. Happy birthday!

  334. Dearest Anna,
    A very happy birthday to you. You have countless lives who you have deeply touched, including mine. I am the one who attended the 2015 Santa Barbara workshops at UCSB all 3 days. I have loved your work over the years at Esalen and in Santa Cruz with so much respect, care, and adoration for you and your work. Thank you for living so deeply and truthfully from your heart and for showing us all how dance is our teacher. You have been my greatest teacher who embodies dance and heart in one. A very happy birthday to you.
    Love,
    Wendy Fox

  335. Dear Anna,
    You have been such an inspiration and Guide in my life since the moment I met you. Your classes always uplift and invite every part of one’s being to come forth and express. Thank you for seeing me so deeply. You have a gift that way. You see people and know how to bring the best… the truth…out of them. I so appreciate you for that. I cherish every moment spent with you…and look forward to many more. Love, Rose

  336. Happy Birthday Anna. Its a good thing i decided to go to Arcosanti 40 years ago where I met you. THAT was the turning point. Much love on your big birthday, and every day.

  337. Happy Birthday Anna, You came to Arcosanti and gave a workshop for the 1978 Summer Solstice. It was Amazing, as are you.

  338. We have been blessed, and shared so much joy and deep passion with you. Love you and wishes for the sweetest birthday.

  339. Dear Anna HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you! I have done Tamalpa Immersion program and would like to thank you very much for your amazing work and legend you have left to the world. I hope, I will still have the chance to meet with you in person some time. With love, Gabrielle Eggstein

  340. Dear Anna, You have been instrumental in helping me “to make dance matter”; to be deeply meaningful and interconnected.
    HAPPY 95TH BIRTHDAY! With Love, Marilyn Jensen

  341. Dear Anna,

    Betsy Polatin here.

    Happy, Happy, Birthday!!
    I met you at Connecticut College in the early 70’s. I was Frances Cott’s assistant. I loved learning from you and talking about life and Art with you, and Sir, and Patrick.
    The freedom you gave me has inspired me to pioneer my own work related to movement and habitual patterns. My book is called “The Actor’s Secret.”
    One other thanks I owe you. You used to talk about your daughter, Daria. I, as a young dancer thought, what a beautiful name for a girl. So I named my first girl, Daria.
    Much Love
    Betsy

  342. Blessed Anna : You are a beacon of light to so many . In the early 80’s I was introduced to your courage and freedom of movement at Esalen Institute and my life was changed forever!! To Life! Harriet Rosen

  343. Happy 95th birthday Anna, you magic woman, shaman, able to raise big energies in groups and let them flow with no constraints. I saw you the first time in 1981 with Mitzuko, who was one of your teachers, it was a social event in your school and I didn’t even talk to you, but that night you came into my dream. That is how I saw right away how mighty special you are.
    I remember vividly the first event with you and Lawrence: Creating new myths and rituals for the community; and then Circle the mountain , Circle the Earth, Theatre improv, learning to make scores, and on and on,so many memories, so many people you touched. I appreciate your genius, courage, power, and your generous heart. I love you and wish you to continue blessing us with
    your gifts.

  344. Happy Blessed Birthday, Anna!
    Inmates in Dallas danced the Planetary Dance, today, in solidarity. They really enjoyed it and felt a deep empowerment while moving for a purpose.

    Inspired by your open inquiry and life teaching, I am happily walking the path of continual investigation into dance, ritual and community. Thank you for your unyielding push to wake up the world thru dance and art. I jump horray jigs for your generosity, enthusiasm, and creative spirit.
    Bowing to you,
    Ana

  345. Dear Anna,

    Happy Merry Birthday to you!
    You let me how to dance out of cancer, to create beauty out of damage, to dream(Traum) out of Trauma through the wonder-ful Tamalpa Life-Art Process training programs. Your presence are Hope and Blessing and Dance to me, a cancer survivor and Tamalpa Practioner. I will follow You and Your aesthetic response to Life and Nature.

  346. Happy Birthday Anna! I was a partner and dear friend of Nikko. In fact, he got me to participate in Circle the Earth! He has passed away but if he was able, I know he would tell you how much he loved you and how much you changed his life.

  347. dear anna, u r an inspiration!!!! blessings to u on this day celebrating ur birth! the breath made visible reawakened me to life lived in creativity and truth…thank u anna!!!

  348. Happy Birthday to you! You have influenced and inspired me greatly. Best memory: Well, 2. Being in your studio in the rain. And watching you curl into a ball at the 75th. Took my breath away. Blessings to you! Judy Cameron

  349. Dearest Anna
    My life changer. My mentor. My sister. Your light goes to the universe and beyond. How lucky for me I bumped into in NY 36 years ago. I learned to live fully in this world.

  350. Dear Anna,
    I´ll play the horn for you on your special day and pass on your dances in nature.
    greetings to you and your enlightening studio!
    iris

  351. Thank you so much for the inspiration and hope you bring into my life i hope i can meet you one day 🙂 Happy birthday!!!

  352. Happy Dance Birthday and thanks a lot for the inspiration and all that you have shown us through dance.

    Yes we dance for you in Berlin
    Tanztheater Piccolino and
    Hanne Franziska Bender Tanz&Regie

  353. Happy Birthday Anna.
    Sending much LOVE from Berlin.
    Thank you for all the inspiration, all the best for you. We dance for you in Berlin the beauty of dance.
    With gratitude
    from Franziska

  354. Dear Anna
    It`s been the moments of meeting that taught me meeting the moment ever since I´ve studied with you. Your unquencable curiosity about Life´s Dance has been an endles inspiration!
    I cherish that ever since!! With gratitude and heartful congratulations, Sonja from Göttingen, Germany

  355. Dearest Person of The World, I recall your 90th B’Day as if it were yesterday! I Danced For Life @ Esalen w/you and have been ever since… Have A Happy andd I hope I do get yo see you on your B’day
    Bash this year ~ I’m healthier than ever and wish to share that joy that YOU as your were such a catalyst ~ Love and so many happy returns to you ~ Joni xo

  356. Dear great lady; i have so many memories of our wonderful times together! I can’t be at Tamalpa, but celebrate your 95th in my heart and all the sweet memories. much love, Robert

  357. Very Dear Anna augurissimi the art life dance never stopped always in a flow happy happy celebration for you!!! bless and love 🙂

  358. Anna, you have had such a huge influence on my life and work. The times at your workshops are some of my most treasured memories. Thanks for all you do for all of us and for the world. Happy birthday xo

  359. Happy Happy 95th birthday Anna! Your legacy lives in so many of us- even in those who have never met you. Grandmother of dance in the Bay Area and beyond, we are so grateful for your sensitivity your vision and wisdom. Thank you Anna for the shadow work I experienced in one of your workshops on one summer day, and for the opportunity to spend 40 minutes embodying a tree. Thank you thank you thank you. Bless you.

  360. Happy CosmicDance Birthday. I felt the kindred dancer spirit once at a lecture of Deepak,,you smiled at me as we were eternally dancing thru this planet. I hope to dance with you again. Spirit Alive…….and Loved
    Jill

    Jill

  361. Dearest Anna,
    You have touched my heart so very deeply. My time with you studying the LAP changed my life forever. I will always carry you in my heart, body and soul. Happy Birthday my dear friend and teacher. May you surrounded by love and the best chocolate in the world!
    love,
    Sue Martin

  362. Happy birthday, Anna, Thanks to you and your wonderful teaching, I met Alice Rutkowski, and the “work” changed my life.

  363. Love and dancing are you–thank you for surviving and sharing–Jackie I’ll always remember your class and advice–love

  364. Thanks to you, dear Anna, my strongest source of inspiration in my life.
    I am so happy and greatful for the gifts you passed on to me. You left strong traces on my path through life.
    With gratitude and love to you from
    Ulla

  365. Dearest Anna who I started dancing with in SF in the 70’s. Especially remembering the TRANCE DANCES on Friday Nights. The drummiing. THe Running. THe processing… the wonder of those times. So happy you listened to your heart and have shared the beauty of dance to so very many.

    Another Happy Birthday to you and may you continue to be in beauty’s arms. LOVE , Patricia Bulitt

  366. Dearest Anna, Thank you for all the inspiration, beauty, dance and engagement you have offered to the world. Love in Creativity, Truth in Movement, Being as Blessing, A life in Art, in deep gratitude and love, Audicia

  367. Wishing you oceans of joy ! Happy memories of dancing Circle the Earth with you many years ago in Philadelphia.The gifts you give to us keep multiplying!

  368. Dear Anna, i send birthday greetings along with so much appreciation for all that you have shown us through dance. Last friday, during a site exploration in the central Octagon in Dunedin City New Zealand, the students preformed your earth run in your honour. I shall not forget dancing this at an NDEO event several years ago. With huge aroha and gratitude. Ali East (University of Otago,NZ.

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From David Harrington and the Kronos Quartet

Sim Sholom
Performed at Sea Ranch in honor of the late Lawrence Halprin.


From Meredith Monk

Dearest Anna,

I know that Gotham Lullaby has been part of your life. You used it beautifully in your piece. I found this very early recording, from 1975 I think, of the piece, and also a companion piece, Gotham Blues. May they convey my love for you.

Meredith

Gotham Lulaby

Gotham Blues



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