Deborah Hay

Deborah Hay presented three large group dances and one solo dance.

About the Artist

Deborah Hay was born in Brooklyn. She has extensive training in dance, studying under Bill Frank and Mia Slavenska, and touring with Cunningham Dance Company through Europe and Asia in 1964. In 1976, Hay moved to Austin, Texas, where, in 1980, the Deborah Hay Dance Company was established. Including herself the dance company members were Emily Burken, Heloise Gold, and Diana Prechter. Her teaching focused on a set of practices, “playing awake,” that engaged the performer on several levels of consciousness at once. While developing her concepts she instituted a yearly four-month group workshop that culminated in large group public performances, and from these group pieces she distilled her solo dances.