Deborah Hay Dance Company: NYTimes Review: "This Sublime New Dance Work Embraces Wonder"

Dancers from the Cullberg Ballet in Deborah Hay’s new work, “Figure a Sea,” at Montclair State University.

PHOTO: MARINA LEVITSKAYA

By Siobhan Burke, October 7, 2016: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/arts/dance/review-deborah-hay-peak-performances-montclair-state.html

About my work:

To survive as a dancer with less and less physical attributes to rely on, I experiment by applying different lenses to how I see while dancing. This supports my body’s potential to engage dynamically with resources outside of myself for inspiration and authorship. After years of incrementally increasing the field from which to unravel this dance, I find a cosmic joke, unfathomable yet unequivocally life-affirming. How I may see our universe, acknowledging its infinitude as I dance, is my survival.

What my body can do is limited. This is not a bad thing because how I choreograph frees me from those limitations. Writing is then how I reframe and understand the body through my choreography.

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NYTimes Review: "This Sublime New Dance Work Embraces Wonder"