Photo: Pete Smith for Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX
This performance is presented as part of the TOWARDS:2026 workshop cycle, made possible through the support of the Swedish Arts Council and the Västra Götaland Region.
12.09
deborah hay (us) my choreographed body… revisited at Vitlycke performance
For this performance, Deborah Hay (US) revisits her choreographed body within the unique context of Vitlycke CPA.
One of contemporary dance’s great voices
Exploring perception, limitation and the infinite possibilities of movement, Hay asks how we can see, experience and create beyond the physical body.
“What my body can do is limited. This is not a bad thing because how I choreograph frees me from those limitations.”
A reflection on dance, the universe and the ever-changing relationship between body, perception and choreography.
About the artist
Choreographer/performer Deborah Hay began her career in the early 1960’s with the Judson Dance Theatre. In her five decades at the vanguard of choreographic experimentation, she has helped re-define the field of dance with her revolutionary work and influential books, “Lamb at the Altar” (1991, Duke University Press), and “My Body, the Buddhist” (2001) and “Using the Sky” (2019), Wesleyan University Press).
She is one of the 21 American performing artists to receive the inaugural and groundbreaking 2012 Doris Duke Artist Award. May 5, 2015 France’s Minister of Culture and Communication awarded Hay the title of CHEVALIER DE L’ORDRE DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES. Tanz Im August 2019 presented RE-Perspective covering Hay’s work from 1968 to the present and in 2021/22 Mercat de les Flor in Barcelona presented a retrospective of her work.
Read more about the artist:
deborahhay.com
TOWARDS:2026 is a cycle of intensive workshops by Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts, combining physical practice, lectures, screenings and live performances.