Urban Homesteading
Rachel Kaplan with K. Ruby Blume
This book is a must for anyone concerned about escalating climate change impacts and looking for ideas on adapting in daily life.
Key topics include: Managing water, waste and energy at the micro level; self-reliance and community-building; raising children with life-centered values; and invaluable resources for taking care of yourself while taking care of the world.
Making Dances That Matter: Resources for Community Creativity
Anna Halprin with Rachel Kaplan
Anna Halprin, vanguard postmodern dancer turned community artist and healer, has created ground-breaking dances with communities all over the world. Here, she presents her philosophy and experience, as well as step-by-step processes for bringing people together to create dances that foster individual and group well-being. Throughout the book, Halprin shows how dance can be a powerful tool for healing, learning and mobilizing change, as she offers insight on group facilitation. Generously illustrated with charts, photographs and scores, this book will be a boon to dance therapists, educators and community artists of all types.
Moving Toward Life
Anna Halprin, edited by Rachel Kaplan
Anna Halprin is one of the most important innovators in the history of modern dance, performance art, and post-modern dance. Moving Toward Life brings together for the first time her collected essays, interviews, manifestos, and teaching materials, along with over 100 illustrations, providing a rich account of the work that radicalized an entire generation of artists.
Depicting Halprin’s deep commitment to social change, Moving Toward Life presents an engaging, critical document of the life of one of the most influential and least known luminaries of American dance. Sally Banes and Janice Ross join editor Rachel Kaplan in providing introductory essays to sections of the book.
Returning to Health with Dance, Movement and Imagery
Anna Halprin with Rachel Kaplan
Anna Halprin offers the wisdom of her life experience as a dancer, teacher and facilitator for healing. She tells her own story as a cancer survivor, and the stories of others with whom she has worked, with deep compassion and clarity. This is a guide to understanding the emotional processes of a health crisis, offering clear guidelines for working with these challenges.