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- Birth nameDaria Schuman Halprin
- Dropped out of University of California, where she studied Anthropology, to make her acting debut in Zabriskie Point (1970). Following filming, she lived in the Mel Lyman-led Boston commune with her Zabriskie Point (1970) co-star Mark Frechette who, after robbing a bank, died in prison. In May 1972, she married Dennis Hopper.
Halprin studied with Fritz Perls, the creator of Gestalt Therapy, and she has a Master's in Psychology. She is co-founder (with her mother, Anna Halprin, a pioneering dance therapist/choreographer) and director of The Tamalpa Institute. Her mother was referred to as "the Martha Graham of the West". Her father, Lawrence Halprin, was a prominent landscape architect who hired former Department of the Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall into his firm.- IMDb Mini Biography By: David Stevens
- SpouseDennis Hopper(May 14, 1972 - 1976) (divorced, 1 child)
- Tamalpa Institute
- Daria Halprin: Dancer, poet, teacher, and author, is among the leading pioneers in the field of movement/dance and expressive arts education and therapy. Her work bridges the fields of somatic psychology, movement/dance therapy, expressive arts therapy, community based arts and health education, organizational consultancy, leadership development, social change and performance. Bringing a life-long practice in the arts to her work , published writings include : Coming Alive; The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy; contributing author Expressive Arts Therapy: Principles and Practices, Poesis: Essays On the Future of the Field; Body Ensouled, Enacted and Entranced. In 1978 Daria co-founded the Tamalpa Institute where she directs training programs in movement/dance and expressive arts education, consultancy and therapy. She teaches in educational, health and art centers throughout the world.
- Her grandmother, Rose Halprin, was national president of Hadassah, the Jewish women's organization, from 1932 to 1934 and again from 1947 to 1952.
- Her father is renowned landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and her mother is dance pioneer Anna Halprin.
- Teaching movement-based healing arts at Tamalpa Institute, California
- Mother of Ruthanna Hopper.
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