| 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 |
April 19, 2012: Deborah Hay among the first class of 21 Doris Duke Artists It was announced today that Deborah Hay received one of the 21 nationwide Doris Duke Artists awards. Deborah Hay at MOMA in November 2012 Deborah Hay will premiere a new piece, Blues, in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, on November 2, 3, and 4, 2012. The performance is part of a three weeks program commissioned by MoMA to artist and choreographer Ralph Lemon. Please click here for additional information. More details available in September 2012. Ellen Bromberg's documentary Deborah Hay, not as Deborah Hay now available online Click here to see Ellen Bromberg's 2006 inspiring documentary Deborah Hay, not as Deborah Hay. An intimate presentation of seminal Judson Church dance artist Deborah Hay, discussing and performing her work. The documentary also presents her unique process of embodied inquiry and her continued engagement in dance as a means of exploring consciousness and of posing unanswerable questions. (from the introductory notes on dance-tech.tv)
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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. Deborah Hay at Richmond Hall, Houston On Saturday, October 13, 2012, at Houston’s Menil Collection, Deborah Hay and six other dancers will perform a site-specific work at the museum’s permanent Dan Flavin installation in Richmond Hall. Hay will perform as part of the Menil Collection exhibition “Silence” which explores the many ways that artists—including painters, sculptors, filmmakers, musicians and performance artists—invoke silence to shape space and consciousness. Visit menil.org for further information about the exhibition.
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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. From the Frankfurter Rundschau Deborah Hay’s choreography appears extremely adept—more originality is hard to imagine—a hushed, intricate provocation to the audience. Score update: Click here to see revisions and additional notes on the score of "A Lecture on the Performance of Beauty"
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