Deborah Hay was born on 1941 and is an American choreographer, dancer, dance theorist, and author working in the field of experimental postmodern dance.
15 Facts About Deborah Hay
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Deborah Hay is one of the original founders of the Judson Dance Theater.
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Deborah Hay moved to Downtown, Manhattan in the 1960s, where she trained with Merce Cunningham and Mia Slavenska.
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Deborah Hay became part of the collective of dancers, composers, and visual artists who performed happenings and minimalist dance performances at the Judson Memorial Church and became known as the Judson Dance Theater.
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Deborah Hay regularly collaborated with Steve Paxton, Robert Rauschenberg and her husband Alex Deborah Hay on choreographic methods.
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In October 1966 Deborah Hay worked with Bell Labs computer experts in collaborative performances that led to 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering.
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In 1970 Deborah Hay left New York City to live in northern Vermont where she created ten Circle Dances that were performed on ten consecutive nights.
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In Vermont, Deborah Hay began her reflection about her choreographic method: the making of contemporary dance and how such dance ideas can be presented and preserved.
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In 1976 Deborah Hay moved from Vermont to Austin, Texas, where she began developing a set of choreographic practices she called playing awake.
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Deborah Hay performed these and other solo dances around the world in the 1990s.
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From 1998 through 2012, Deborah Hay conducted annual Postmodern dance Solo Performance Commissioning Projects on Whidbey Island in Washington State and at Findhorn Foundation in Findhorn, Scotland.
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In 2000 Deborah Hay departed from her usual solo dance-making to create a duet for herself and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
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In 2013, her museum installation Perception Unfolds: Looking at Deborah Hay's Dance was curated by Annette Carlozzi for the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin Texas.
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In 2016 Deborah Hay presented dances at the University of California, Los Angeles's Center for the Art of Performances' Freud Playhouse.
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In 2021, Deborah Hay established her archive at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas.