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D'Ya Wanna? Summer Workshop 1973. A documentary report on a three-week multi-racial, cross cultural workshop, led by Anna Halprin & Xavier Nash, assisted by Benito Santiago, in San Francisco, Marin County and The Sea Ranch, California, from July 13 to August 10 1973.
SF: San Francisco Dancers' Workshop, 1973. First edition, limited to 100 copies. 4to. Plastic comb-bound, with yellow card cover printed in black. 84pp. + Introduction + Appendix and Bibliography. Printed on rectos only.
Contains a preliminary text on "Workshops and Objectives" ("to become valuable individuals in a valuable community; having a useful impact on the natural, social and spiritual environments"); the "Score for writing and R.S.V.P. Cycle" (the R.S.V.P Cycles were developed by Anna and Lawrence Halprin as "a methodology for individual and collective creativity"); and "Day by Day documentation of Workshop" (daily rituals and movement, communal lunches, saunas and swims, active listening, application of the R.S.V.P methodology, etc.).
A scarce document from the SF Dancers' Workshop, which had been established by Halprin in 1959 with the aim of healing and resolving social conflict through the integration of psychology, body therapies and education with dance, art and drama. This copy has an original 4.5x6 inch b/w group photograph mounted inside the upper cover (it's unclear if all copies included this). Slight foxing to edges, o/w Near Fine.
