{"product_id":"lamb-at-the-altar-deborah-hay-9780822314486","title":"Lamb at the Altar: The Story of a Dance","description":"\"The intention of my work is to dislodge assumptions about the fixity of the three-dimensional body.\"--Deborah Hay\u003cp\u003eHer movements are uncharacteristic, her words subversive, her dances unlike anything done before--and this is the story of how it all works. A founding member of the famed Judson Dance Theater and a past performer in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Deborah Hay is well known for choreographing works using large groups of trained and untrained dancers whose surprising combinations test the limits of the art. \u003ci\u003eLamb at the Altar\u003c\/i\u003e is Hay's account of a four-month seminar on movement and performance held in Austin, Texas, in 1991. There, forty-four trained and untrained dancers became the human laboratory for Hay's creation of the dance \u003ci\u003eLamb, lamb, lamb . . ., \u003c\/i\u003e a work that she later distilled into an evening-length solo piece, \u003ci\u003eLamb at the Altar.\u003c\/i\u003e In her book, in part a reflection on her life as a dancer and choreographer, Hay tells how this dance came to be. She includes a movement libretto (a prose dance score) and numerous photographs by Phyllis Liedeker documenting the dance's four-month emergence.\u003cbr\u003eIn an original style that has marked her teaching and writing, Hay describes her thoughts as the dance progresses, commenting on the process and on the work itself, and ultimately creating a remarkable document on the movements--precise and mysterious, mental and physical--that go into the making of a dance. Having replaced traditional movement technique with a form she calls a performance meditation practice, Hay describes how dance is enlivened, as is each living moment, by the perception of dying and then involves a freeing of this perception from emotional, psychological, clinical, and cultural attitudes into movement. \u003ci\u003eLamb at the Altar\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of this process as specifically practiced in the creation of a single piece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah Hay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822314487\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822314486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.30w x 0.70d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deborah Hay","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086966599935,"sku":"9780822314486","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6cde544c-e695-490e-8a07-a9a5fe26fe88.jpg?v=1769097531","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lamb-at-the-altar-deborah-hay-9780822314486","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}