STEPS Theater Company: For People Challanging AIDS

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Title

STEPS Theater Company: For People Challanging AIDS

Collection

Anna Halprin Video Archive

Names

Halprin, Anna (Director)
Ellison Home Video Productions (Production company)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1988-06

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-7347

Subjects

Dance
Halprin, Anna
Mind and body
Dance therapy
HIV-positive persons
AIDS (Disease)
AIDS (Disease) and the arts
Dancers -- California -- San Francisco
Dance workshops and workshop performances -- California

Genres

Filmed Dance
Instructional Films

Notes

Content: Title from opening credits; date listed with additional information, Oct. 1988.
Venue: Videotaped at studio, in San Francisco, Calif. 1988 June.
Acquisition: Gift; Anna Halprin; 2012.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (16 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Abstract

Excerpts from a workshop of HIV-positive participants which includes showing drawings (of life and death cycles) they created about their feelings regarding AIDS and then expressing these drawings as dances. This video focuses on one participants cedar tree drawing and the dance he creates with a discussion of his feelings.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b19968466
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c574cae0-352a-0131-3e87-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

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MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "STEPS Theater Company: For People Challanging AIDS" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c574cae0-352a-0131-3e87-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. STEPS Theater Company: For People Challanging AIDS Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c574cae0-352a-0131-3e87-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "STEPS Theater Company: For People Challanging AIDS" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 14, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c574cae0-352a-0131-3e87-3c075448cc4b

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