TURN EVERYWHERE: DEBORAH HAY ON FILM/IN PERSON

 

Saturday, September 13, 7 PM
$25 General Admission
$15 Students with ID
90 minutes with 20-minute, post-film conversation
Black Box Theater, Studio Complex (indoors)

Photo by Laurent Pichaud

I cannot think of anything else in my life where there is so much unlearning and learning happening at the same time.
—Deborah Hay about dance

An evening of insightful and meditative documentaries on the interminable, inimitable, experimental choreographer Deborah Hay, her artistic relationships, and her creative process. Films by Peter Humble and David Young: Alignment is everywhere and Becky Edmunds: Turn Your F^*king Head. Discussion with Hay to follow with 2025 Annual Festival Guest Curator, Michèle Steinwald.

Alignment is everywhere was shot on a 16mm hand-cranked camera using expired and hand-processed film stock, and marks Hay’s return after the loss of theater innovator and dear friend, Margaret Cameron. Filmed in 2019 at Indented Head, near Melbourne, Australia, the short work is a gentle contemplation of how one “serves a tree” through death.

Turn Your F^*king Head documents the final edition of Hay’s iconic Solo Performance Commissioning Project, in which participating artists from around the world receive Hay’s most recent solo choreography. Filmed in 2012 at Findhorn community, Scotland, the poetics and puzzles of Hay’s instructions are visually combined with the landscape of the historic ecovillage.

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