Fall 2023 Workshop in Austin, TX; September 18-29, 2023


"Finding coherence in movement and choreography for performers interested in both."

"My mind is my body in dance. This coherency sustains my practice. It is how I maintain and confirm my interest in movement, performance, and choreography. Tools will be offered to support access to your own experience of coherence while dancing."


I will guide a daily collective movement practice based on finding coherence through the cellular body. In addition to our morning practice we will collaborate on a simple yet challenging group work that will develop each day. Writing is part of material experienced.


- Deborah Hay


December 2022


SCHEDULE

September 18-29, 2023; 10am-4pm

*Sunday and Monday, September 24 and 25 off


LOCATION

The Friends Meeting House of Austin

3701 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd #3

Austin, TX 78721


TUITION $850


APPLICATIONS

Applications open April 1, 2023 until June 1, 2023, or until filled.

Artists will be notified of acceptance by June 14, 2023.


TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATIONS

Participants are responsible for their own travel and housing. The Theorists will provide letters of support to aid in grant applications to help subsidize fees. In addition, we will try to accommodate artists in need with local hosts and suggested sublets. If you are in need of housing or know of housing opportunities, please write Amy Morrow (amy@thetheorists.org).


COVID PRECAUTIONS

Our hosts will follow CDC protocols. Masking is recommended and updates will be provided closer to date based on local numbers. We ask that international travelers provide a negative test upon arrival. We are in a spacious and private historic house and ballroom. There are multiple windows and vents for air ventilation. We have access to shaded porch area outdoors with rocking chairs and ample room to spread out to enjoy the fresh air overlooking Austin's lady bird lake. 


CONTACT

Amy Morrow

amy@thetheorists.org

https://www.thetheorists.org/dhdc

In Conversation with Deborah Hay

In celebration of Hay’s archive recently coming to the Ransom Center, join Hay and her archival collaborator, Laurent Pichaud, for a conversation about what it means to document dance.

“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.” — Deborah Hay

Seating is limited, please RSVP. Please note that a reservation does not guarantee a seat. Seats not claimed by 6:50 p.m. may be released.

Doors open | 6:30 p.m.

Program | 7 p.m., Prothro Theater, Ransom Center

For free tickets to the event at the Ransom Center on January 19: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-conversation-with-deborah-hay-tickets-487568810437  

UT Texas Performing Arts presents: Cullberg — Works by Deborah Hay featuring music by Graham Reynolds, Jan. 28, 2023

 

Performance Date  - Sat, Jan 28, 2023

The Match at 2:00 p.m.

Horse, the solos at 7:30 p.m. featuring live music by Graham Reynolds

A performance of Hay’s 2004 masterpiece The Match will kick off a day of performance, discussion, and film screenings. This iconic work contains meditation-like exercises that invisibly bind the dancers to the material by establishing a mental, emotional, and bodily rigor visible in the performance. Time Out, New York proclaimed “The Match is a fascinating, vibrant battle of wits that unfolds through a silent score of movement.”

Horse, the solos, is a meditation on the climate crisis and modern survival, with new music by Austin-based composer Graham Reynolds. “Horse, the solos is choreographed in a manner that relies on an intuitive understanding of risk, efficiency, and survival. There is control in efficiency but not risk-taking. Combined they establish the conditions for [the work],” says Hay.  For its U.S. premiere, Graham Reynolds will perform the music live for the first time.  The program will open with a rare solo performance by Deborah Hay.

JAN 28, 2023 

1 p.m. Pre-performance conversation between Deborah Hay and Kirk Lynn, playwright and UT professor

2 p.m. Live performance of "The Match" by the Swedish company Cullberg

3 p.m. Post-performance discussion moderated by Madge Darlington, UT professor

7 p.m. Film screening of "Dear Dancer"

7:30 pm. Deborah Hay solo, "my choreographed body ... revisited" and U.S. premiere of "Horses, the solos" performed by Swedish company, Cullberg

9 p.m. Post-performance discussion by Leah Cox, UT professor

McCullough Theatre, 2390 Robert Dedman Dr.

Texas Performing Arts 22/23 Season

Tickets: https://texasperformingarts.org/season/cullberg-deborah-hay-2023-mccullough-theatre-austin-texas