A life in motion; Born of the art world, Daria Halprin integrated her roots into an innovative therapy

From: Pacific Sun | Date: June 17, 2003| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

Daria Halprin was used to being an objet d'art. She had been dancing naked on stages around the world since she was a kid. She was the darling of the famous avant-garde innovators of the Beat Generation who gathered at her parents' home. She was the experimental subject of Fritz Perls as he developed his theories of Gestalt psychology. So when Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni "discovered" her at age 19 and cast her in the starring role of what became a cult movie, Zabriskie Point, it s...

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