Deborah Hay
Deborah Hay | |
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Born | 1941 (age 82–83) Dancing, 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering |
Movement | Postmodern dance, Judson Dance Theater, Minimalism. Postmodernism |
Deborah Hay (born 1941) is an American
Judson Memorial Church
Hay moved to
Bell Labs
In October 1966 Hay (along with other artists) worked with
1970s–1980s
In 1970 Hay left New York City to live in northern Vermont where she created ten Circle Dances that were performed on ten consecutive nights. No audience was present. In Vermont, Hay began her reflection about her choreographic method: the making of contemporary dance and how such dance ideas can be presented and preserved.
Her first book from 1975, Moving Through the Universe in Bare Feet (Ohio University Press), explains Hay's resulting memory/concept mode of choreographic creation/recording. In it, Hay emphasizes conceptual art narratives underlining the minimal choreographic process of her dance creation.
In 1976 Hay moved from Vermont to Austin, Texas, where she began developing a set of choreographic practices she called playing awake. This choreographic method engaged with the movement of untrained performers. While developing the choreography for these dances, Hay instituted untrained group workshops in Austin and New York City. These workshops culminated in public performances in 1977 and thereafter.[8] From these untrained group workshops, Hay, throughout the 1980s, created choreography for both trained and untrained groups while also making solo dances that used her signature Noh-inspired slow style. In the 1980s her choreographic style began to take on characteristics of Tai chi-like slow flows.
1990s–2000s
In 1994 her second book, Lamb at the Altar: The Story of a Dance (Duke University Press), Hay documents the unique creative process that defined these playing awake works.
In the late-1990s Hay focused on performing solo dances based on her playing awake experimental choreographic method: such as "The Man Who Grew Common in Wisdom", "Voilà", "The Other Side of O", "Fire", "Boom Boom Boom", "Music", "Beauty" and "The Ridge, Room". Hay performed these and other solo dances around the world in the 1990s.
My Body, The Buddhist, her third book, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2000. It contains her reflections on her interest in Buddhism and the big lessons she learned by paying close attention to her body while it was dancing.
From 1998 through 2012, Hay conducted annual Postmodern dance Solo Performance Commissioning Projects on Whidbey Island in Washington State and at Findhorn Foundation in Findhorn, Scotland. A one hour documentary film about Solo Performance Commissioning Projects titled Turn Your F*^king Head was made by Becky Edmunds in 2012. It was produced and distributed by Routledge.
In 2000 Hay departed from her usual solo dance-making to create a
In 2006 Hay choreographed “O, O” for five New York City
2010s-present
In 2013, her museum installation Perception Unfolds: Looking at Deborah Hay's Dance was curated by Annette Carlozzi for the
In 2015 Hay, in collaboration with
In 2016 Hay presented dances at the
In 2016 Hay's fourth book, Using the Sky: a Dance, was published by Routledge Books.
In 2021, Hay established her archive at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas.[11]
References
- ^ "Deborah Hay", 10.31.12, Art Forum
- ^ [1] Hay Bio
- ^ "Judson Dance Theater". 100 Dance Treasures. Dance Heritage Coalition. Archived from the original on 11 November 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ "Bell Labs & The Origins of the Multimedia Artist", November 8, 1998
- ^ Ken Knowlton. "Mosaic Portraits: New Methods and Strategies" (PDF). PAGE 59 (Winter 2004/2005). Computer Arts Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-26.
- ^ "Studies in Perception I (1966), by Knowlton & Leon Harmon". Archived from the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
- ^ "A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation: Bell Labs". Archived from the original on 2006-09-06. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
- ^ Gus Solomons, Jr., "The Deborah Hay Dance Company" in Dance Magazine (May, 2004)
- ^ "Deborah Hay". Daniel Langlois Foundation. Archived from the original on 2010-07-03.
- ^ Deborah Hay's No Time to Fly
- ^ "Choreographer Deborah Hay's archive goes to the Harry Ransom Center". sites.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-13.