32nd Kalamata International Dance Festival- BOOK PRESENTATION: Using the Sky. A Dance/Deborah Hay
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What if every cell in my body at once has the potential to perceive beauty and to surrender beauty simultaneously, each and every moment? – Deborah Hay
Using the Sky. A Dance, translated into Greek with an introduction by Myrto Katsiki, published by the Athens Epidaurus Festival and Nefeli Publishing, 2026 (Using the Sky. A Dance, Wesleyan University Press, 2019), is Deborah Hay’s most recent book, following the influential Lamb at the Altar: The Story of a Dance (Duke University Press, 1991) and My Body, the Buddhist (Wesleyan University Press, 2001).
Through diary entries and notes, the book traces the evolution of Hay’s choreographic practice from 2000 onwards and her search for ways to approach and redefine the dance experience. It includes three complete choreographic scores that offer access to Hay’s unceasing experimentation with language and its possibilities as a choreographic tool.