On November 20, BilbaoArte will host a screening of the film My Lunch With Anna, by Alain Buffard and Anna Halprin HALPRIN | (France and USA, 2005). There will also be a discussion with Eneko Lorente (UPV/EHU).
This activity, part of the Dantzaldia Festival, is being held in collaboration with the French Institute.
Practical information:
November 20 – 7:00 p.m.
BilbaoArte
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Film written and directed by Alain Buffard
Starring Alain Buffard and Anna Halprin
Produced by PI:ES / Alain Buffard, with the participation of AFAA – Association française d’Action artistique, Centre Pompidou, and Le Fresnoy – Studio national des Arts contemporains
Country of production: France
Year of production: 2005
Language: English
Screening in original version with Spanish subtitles
This activity, part of the Dantzaldia Festival, is organized in collaboration with the French Institute.
My Lunch With Anna is a portrait and an interpreted dialogue between choreographers Alain Buffard and Anna Halprin, in which gesture is combined with words. Filmed in 2005 over the course of five staged lunches in open and closed spaces, it captures conversations that revolve around work processes, their respective experiments with movement, and everyday gestures.
Anna Halprin (USA, 1920-2021), an emblematic figure in American postmodern dance, questioned the diversity of movement based on research into our everyday gestures that began in the late 1950s with her San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop.
Alain Buffard (France, 1960-2013) began dancing in 1978 with Alwin Nikolais at the CNDC in Angers and, in the 1980s, became a performer for Brigitte Farges and Daniel Larrieu. In 2001, promoting his creative work in the field known as ‘non-dance’, he created “Dispositif 3.1,” which brought together Anne Laurent, Claudia Triozzi, and dance historian Laurence Louppe on the same stage. His works followed in the footsteps of the performative pieces of Anna Halprin, whom he met in 1996.
My Lunch With Anna (1)
