To honor her intuition, Deborah Hay created a 2013 sabbatical for herself and the DHDC. After 52 years of striving, not striving for one year is a way to restore her thinly stretched body/mind balance. In 2014 she looks forward to putting into practice all her learning.

FUSEBOX Festival 2013, Austin Texas

No Time To Fly and Fire
Jeanine Durning and Ros Warby
April 18, 2013 at 7:00pm
at The Long Center

Two of Deborah Hay’s most remarkable solos performed by two of the world's top contemporary dance artists.

On Jeanine Durning (performs No Time to Fly):

"Jeanine is one of those exceptional individuals for whom choreographic challenges provide opportunities for effortless and prolific hypotheses, each of which manifests a delightful and profound intensity of its own. Artists of her caliber are rare – do not miss her."
-- William Forsythe

On Ros Warby (performs Fire):

"Warby's dances are among the most communicative around, assiduous to the nth degree and never pretentious."
-- The Australian

As Holy Sites Go/Duet
Jeanine Durning and Ros Warby
April 19, 2013 at 7:00pm and April 20, 2013 at 2:00pm
at The Long Center

Based on her acclaimed No Time to Fly (2010), which marked Hay's return to solo performance, As Holy Sites Go/duet originally began as a trio and has been adapted as a duet for two of the world's top contemporary choreographers--Jeanine Durning and Ros Warby. This past year the duet has been performed at Dancespace Project (NYC) and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) to great critical success.

 

 

 

 

 

 


  

FUSEBOX Festival 2013, Austin Texas

Motion Bank: Working on Deborah Hay's score
April 24, 2013 at 12:00pm
Salvage Vanguard Theater

Motion Bank is a research project of The Forsythe Company working with a select group of artists on the development of digital scores to be published on-line by the end of 2013. The main aim of the research is to explore the potential of computer-based tools and techniques to translate choreographic principles into new resources to be interacted with from diverse perspectives including dance education and digital arts practices. Renown Austin-based choreographer Deborah Hay is the first artist invited to participate in the project.

For this Fusebox public talk Deborah Hay and her dancers Jeanine Durning and Ros Warby will share a platform with the digital artists, Florian Jenett and Amin Weber, who are working on her score to give insights into its development process. Scott deLahunta, the project leader for Motion Bank, will moderate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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.

 

 
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