Bibliography
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Books written by Deborah Hay:
 
My Body, the Buddhist, 2000, Wesleyan University Press
Lamb at the Altar: The Story of a Dance, 1994, Duke University Press
Moving Through the Universe in Bare Feet, Swallow Press, 1975
A collection of ten Circle Dances created and written by Deborah Hay.
Tasting the Blaze, Futura Press, 1985
A catalogue of a performance collaboration with Deborah Hay, Tina
Girouard, and Pauline Oliveros.
Lamb at the Altar: The Story of a Dance, Duke University Press, 1994
Documentation and dance score of Hay's process of distilling her large
group work lamb, lamb, lamb... into the solo repertory piece, Lamb at the Altar.
 
My Body, the Buddhist, published by Wesleyan Univserity Press, Fall 2000.
 
Major articles written by Deborah Hay:
Voila: a dance libretto, Performing Arts Journal #63, 9/99
In Contact Quarterly, A Vehicle For Moving Ideas , Northampton, MA,
titles include:
Remaining Positionless, by Deborah Hay
Stretching The Practice, by Deborah Hay
Notes on Snakeskin's Girl, by Deborah Hay
Excerpts from Lamb At the Altar: The Story of a Dance, by Deborah Hay
Lamb, lamb, lamb...a movement libretto for 42 individuals, with an Introduction, The Play of Dance, by Ann Daly
The Drama Review, NYU and MIT University Press.
Letters To My Daughter,
The Drama Review, NYU and MIT University Press.
Whole Point Space #1, part of a collection of essays titled Ages of the
Avant -Guard, The Performing Arts Journal, John Hopkins University
Press.
What Has Become of Postmodern Dance, edited by Ann Daly, Wavelengths or
Telephone Wires by Deborah Hay, The Drama Review, Spring 1992
 
The following libraries and archival collections house videos, articles,
books and program materials on the work of Deborah Hay and the Deborah
Hay Dance Company:
Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
Lincoln Center Dance Collection of the New York City Library, New York,
NY.
The Austin History Center, Austin, TX.
 
 
 
In each of the following books on dance, there is a chapter devoted to
the work of Deborah Hay:
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Modern Dance, by Don McDonaugh
Contemporary Dance, by Anne Livet
Terpsichore in Sneakers, by Sally Banes
Reading Dancing, by Susan Foster - Hay is one of four featured dance
artists, along with choreographers George Balanchine, Martha Graham and
Merce Cunningham.
 
Major articles written about Deborah Hay:
Horse, Rider, Woman, Playing, Dancing, by Ann Daly, an interview with Deborah Hay, in Performing Arts Journal #63, 9/99
Notes on Two Dances By Deborah Hay, by Yvonne Rainer, IKON #1, Feb '67.
Leaving The House, The Solo Performance of Deborah Hay, by Bill Jeffers,
The Drama Review, NYU and MIT University Press.
Dancing in and out of Language: a Feminist Dilemma, by Rachel Fensham,
Writings on Dance #9, Australia.
The Man Who Grew Common In Wisdom, by Judy Burns,
Women & Performance Journal.
The CNDO transcripts, Center for New Dance Development, The Netherlands, The Centre for Arts Research and Development, University of Exeter, UK
 
Several Doctoral dissertations have been presented on Deborah Hay's work.