Using the sky : a dance / Deborah Hay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hay, Deborah, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modern dance.

Choreography.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 138 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

In the mid 1990s Deborah Hay's work took a new turn. From her early experiments with untrained dancers, and after a decade of focusing on solo work, the choreographer began to explore new grounds of choreographic notation and transmission by working with experienced performers and choreographers. Using the Sky: a dance follows a similar path to Hay's previous books - Lamb at the Altar and My Body, the Buddhist - by chronicling her unrelenting quest for ways to both define and rethink her choreographic imagery through a broad range of alternately intimate, poetic, and often playful engagement with language and writing. This book is a reflection on the experiments that Hay set up for herself and her collaborators and the ideas she discovered while choreographing four dances: A Lecture on the Performance of Beauty (2003), If I Sing to You (2008), No Time to Fly (2010), and the solo my choreographed body (2014). The works are revisited by unfolding a trove of notes and journal entries, resulting in a dance score in its own right and providing an insight into Hay's extensive legacy and her profound influence on the current conversations in contemporary performance arts. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction 1

Using the Sky: a dance 3

A Lecture on the Performance of Beauty 16

If I Sing to You 58

No Time to Fly 106

My choreographed body 128.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 138).

ISBN:

9781138914353

1138914355

9781138914377

1138914371

OCLC:

914156914