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Anna Haiprin PhD, founded the San Francisco Dancers' Workshop (1955) and Tamalpa Institute (1978). Anna is a seminal figure in the worid of dance, with numerous honors and awards to her name, including yearly choreographer fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the American Dance Guild Award for outstanding contributions to the feld of dance.

Long-time pioneer and innovator in the "new theatre," she has led in the evolution of performance combining improvisation, audience participation, scored and aleatory sound, environmental and street theatre, and collective creativity. She was one of the first people in the contemporary Western world to use dance as both a healing art and a performing art.

Her work focuses on the integration of the physical body with the emotional body and the effects of mental imagery on movement. She uses a variety of movement and visual art related structures in her work with cancer and AIDS patients. She has developed the Psycho Kinetic Visualization Process, the Life/Art Process and Movement Ritual.

For the past 25 years, she has led groups in exploring dance in the environment of the northern California sea coast. At the age of 75, Anna Halprin continues to perform, travel, and teach with an indefatigable will. She leads workshops and large group rituals all around the world and continues to explore the many uses of dance in our lives.

She still enjoys dancing in the environment, learning what she can from the trees, the rocks, and the sea.