Deborah Hay Dance Company: Figure a Sea-- choreography and direction Deborah Hay with original sound and music by Laurie Anderson

Figure a Sea, a dance for the Cullberg Ballet plus 5 guest dancers, is a landscape in which movement and sound combine to create a grand and emotional silence within the theater. How is it possible to sustain that silence in the hearts and minds of the performers and audiences alike? The choreographer Deborah Hay creates this new work, with sound and music by composer/musician Laurie Anderson.

For details, http://www.cullbergbaletten.se/en

World premiere at Dansens Hus, main stage, Stockholm, 24 September 2015

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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Figure a Sea-- choreography and direction Deborah Hay with original sound and music by Laurie Anderson