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Using the Sky 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 choreo graphic 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 choreo- graphic imagery through a broad range of alternately intimate, poetic, analytical, 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 choreograph- ing 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 choreo- graphed 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. Deborah Hay began her career in NYC in the early 1960s. In five dec- ades at the vanguard of choreographic experimentation she has helped redefine the field of dance with her revolutionary work and insightful publications. She is regarded as one the most influential contemporary choreographers. Using the Sky a dance Deborah Hay First published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2016 Deborah Hay The right of Deborah Hay to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Hay, Deborah, 1941- Using the sky : a dance / Deborah Hay. pages cm 1. Modern dance. 2. Choreography. I. Title. GV1783.H374 2016 792.8—dc23 2015012313 ISBN: 978-1-138-91435-3 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-138-91437-7 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-69087-2 (ebk) Typeset in Stempel Garamond LT Std by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK For Savannah and Ella Jane Contents List of Figures ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xii Notes on Text xvii Foreword by Kristy Edmunds xviii 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 Epilogue 131 Dances 134 References 138 vii Figures 1 Continuity Drawing 5 © Deborah Hay, 2014 2 Beauty–Montpellier 25 © Deborah Hay, 2005 3 Beauty–Toronto 26 © Deborah Hay, 2007 4 Body Drawing 1 57 5 If I Sing to You 82 © Sylvio Dittrich, 2008 6 If I Sing to You 84 © Anna van Kooij, 2008 7 If I Sing to You 87 © Anna van Kooij, 2008 8 If I Sing to You 95 © Sylvio Dittrich, 2008 9 Body Drawing 2 102 10 No Time to Fly 114 © Rino Pizzi, 2012 ix
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