Without it being my intention, dance has become a medium for the study and application of detachment. Actually, I prefer the term dis-attachment because it implies a more active role in letting go. The balance between loyalty and dis-attachment to that loyalty, sensually and choreographically, is how the practice of dance remains alive for me. Deborah Hay

Gill Clarke
9 December 1954 - 15 November 2011

It is with great sadness that after many years of living with cancer, Gill Clarke, a dear friend and colleague, died on November 15, 2011. I understand from a friend, one of her several friends and family at her bedside, that she died as she lived, calmly and with great poise. I cherish all I learned from her––from the direct and tireless ways she lived her life, to her vision of the body in dance rippling into greater and greater circles of inclusion. Deborah Hay

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The Solo Performance Commissioning Project 2012 in Findhorn

Deborah Hay will hold her annual Solo Performance Commissioning Project in Findhorn, Scotland again in 2012 from August 29 to September 7.

The Solo Performance Commissioning Project began in 1998 at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts. The Project is open to experienced actors, dancers and choreographers, and it is co-sponsored by Independent Dance in the UK.

Read here an important text for this year's SPCP, Deborah Hay's notes on adaptation, inspired by Igor Stravinsky's Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons.

Please click here for more details and to register.

 

 

 

  

Deborah Hay collaborates with the William Forsythe Company in the Motion Bank Project

A fount of information technologies will soon be available on the internet through the work of an exclusive group of digital media date artist/experts developing new means to inform/teach/enlighten audience/dancer/choreographer on the various ways dances are choreographed and performed. Following Deborah Hay, Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fangion, and then Bebe Miller will engage their individual processes with the digital media artists, creating new technologies beside the ones already invented/developed/used. Click here for more details.

 
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