Deborah Hay audience talk
Deborah Hay 040710 No Time to Fly 2010
Paraphrased comments heard on Deborah Hay dance floor from audience who had never seen her before: She calls me to attention and calls me back over and over. Her movements are so slow yet so continuous. She uses so many parts of her body at once. Something is always underway, leaning toward the next movement. There is a kind of magic that while one slow movement seems to hold my attention another movement or a whole lot of other movements are building a continuity anticipating the next movement.
I did not want to blink so that I would not miss anything. Reminded me of staying in this wonderful place in San Francisco with a huge picture window where I would be mesmerized by watching groups of Asian people doing Tai Chi. I could hardly take time to eat for wanting to keep watching them.
I would ask, why am I so engaged? She brings me to the attention to the moment, more than that she breaks the moment down for me, taking me moment to moment, she breaks down the jester, demystifies the jester by exposing herself.
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