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The Museum of Performance + Design is one of the largest archives of the performing arts in the United States.

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined September 2011
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🎊Thank you to our wonderful members, guests, & friends for making our Bravo exhibition celebration such a special night! We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Kip Cranna, Barbara Rominski, Delcina Stevenson, Jean Kellogg, Jon Finck, @SFOpera & @mpdsf & sponsor E.L. Wiegand🎊
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Read Terry Riley’s tribute to choreographer Anna Halprin who has died aged 100 thewire.co.uk/in-writing/ess…
“A vortex of spontaneous action”: Terry Riley remembers Anna Halprin - The Wire

“A vortex of spontaneous action”: Terry Riley remembers Anna Halprin - The Wire

The US composer recalls his pivotal meeting with the pioneering dancer and choreographer who has died aged 100

thewire.co.uk
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Anna Halprin, a dancer and choreographer who sought to move beyond what she saw as the constraints of modern dance, died on Monday at her home in Kentfield, California. She was 100. nyti.ms/3uuvrVp
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Visit @mpdsf's newest exhibit w/o leaving home! Helgi Tomasson: 35 Years of Artistry, celebrates Tomasson through the lens of four of his story ballets: Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, and Romeo & Juliet. See the virtual exhibit here → bit.ly/3lfmRWb
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Please join us in congratulating SF Ballet Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson, who will be presented with the 2020 San Francisco Arts Medallion for his outstanding leadership in the arts by @mpdsf on 4/23. For more info → bit.ly/2OwrYn9
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We have been, and remain, #sanfranciscoproud since 1933. #SanFrancisco 📷: @mpdsf
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The @mpdsf keeps alive the unfolding history of the performing arts in the Bay Area by collecting, preserving, and making available material on performance and theater design. Meet them at History Days 2019! buff.ly/2tygNiP
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NEXT THURSDAY 6/28 We highly recommend going to the first public workshop/performance of "The Latin Quarter: Maclovia Ruiz and the Missing Beat" by Alejandro Murguía. Happening at the Museum of Performance + Design @mpdsf. mpdsf.org/blog/2018/5/18/arc…
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We're sifting through the archives @mpdsf and looking back at Sleeping Beauty's of the past. #ThrowbackThursday #TBT
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Exhibition of thoughts sketches of early production stage now @mpdsf until June 15. @murielmaffre #opera #ballet – at San Francisco, CA
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Warren Travis' new works on paper @mpdsf created for staged reading of Oedipus on Sat, May 27 at Fort Mason Chapel @SFIAF #sfthtr #sfart – at Sunnyvale, CA
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How exciting @mpdsf @sfmexicanmuseum I will be there : ) mexicanmuseum.org/exhibits-e… #Aztec #Dance
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Thanks to everyone who made it out to #MuseumsHeal, to our incredible presenters/facilitators, and once again to @mpdsf for hosting!
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*Up on the Blog* Muriel Maffre E.D. of the @mpdsf combed the archives and shares about the origins of #Nutcracker: bit.ly/1Y5EOUv
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5 BFA seniors were invited to perform an improvisation alongside the installation "The Roots" @mpdsf last Thursday. – at San Francisco, CA
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"Leonid Yakobson made ballets that turned the tools of propaganda in on themselves." -Janice Ross @sfballet @mpdsf → thecjm.me/1Kmvbe3 – at San Francisco, CA
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It's #FlashbackFriday with @mpdsf and SF Ballet's first ever Romeo & Juliet circa 1938: bit.ly/1E24V3S
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Always much to do on #ThirdThursdays in Yerba Buena! @MoADsf @cartoonart @CAHistory @mpdsf @root_division @ybca →thirdthursdaysf.wordpress.co… – at San Francisco, CA
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A beautiful #ThrowbackThursday from @UpOutSF dedicated to our history! So many memories! cc: @mpdsf
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"Instant Love" performing arts #selfies through the years on show @mpdsf includes #opera bit.ly/1C4A2N5
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