Crossing Art and Design Halprin’s Choreographies

Abstract

It is the object of this work to investigate, explore and reveal the relational aspect of artistic processes of representation – mapping in particular – and the process of landscape production, using the work of Anna and Lawrence Halprin. The artistic representations of Anne Halprin’s choreographies and the artistic representations of Lawrence Halprin’s landscapes are fundamental to the productions of their objects of study, and their personal interaction generated and enabled a codified language which was relevant in both disciplines, in a rich and symbiotic interaction. Mapping is both a reflexion and an agent in the creative process of representation and the creation and production of an artistic and architectural work. Anna and Lawrence Halprin’s framework allows for an integrated reading of the same tools – mapping, notations, material representations – applied to processes of distinct nature – dance and landscape choreographies, potentially revealing them as a common process.

Keywords: landscape, representation, choreographies