My Body, the Buddhist

A premiere choreographer's compelling argument for the agency of the body in creative processes.Through a series of...
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Author: Deborah Hay
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Language: English
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My Body, the Buddhist by Hay, Deborah

My Body, the Buddhist

$360.94

My Body, the Buddhist

$360.94
Author: Deborah Hay
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A premiere choreographer's compelling argument for the agency of the body in creative processes.

Through a series of imaginative approaches to movement and performance, choreographer Deborah Hay presents a profound reflection on the ephemeral nature of the self and the body as the locus of artistic consciousness. Using the same uniquely playful poetics of her revolutionary choreography, she delivers one of the most revealing accounts of what art creation entails and the ways in which the body, the center of our aesthetic knowledge of the world, can be regarded as our most informed teacher.

My Body, The Buddhist becomes a way into Hay's choreographic techniques, a gloss on her philosophy of the body (which shares much with Buddhism), and an extraordinary artist's primer. The book is composed of nineteen short chapters ("my body likes to rest," "my body finds energy in surrender," "my body is bored by answers"), each an example of what Susan Foster calls Hay's "daily attentiveness to the body's articulateness."

Author: Deborah Hay
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 12/01/2000
Pages: 133
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.07w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780819563286

About the Author
DEBORAH HAY's choreography, from exquisitely meditative solos to dances for large groups of untrained and trained dancers, explores the nature of experience, perception, and attention in dance, and has received numerous awards. Her previous books are Lamb at the Altar (1994) and Moving Through the Universe in Bare Feet (1975). SUSAN FOSTER is Professor of Dance History at UC-Riverside and author of Choreography and Narrative (1998) and Reading Dancing (1988).

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