My Body, the Buddhist

Name: My Body, the Buddhist
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ISBN: 9780819563286

ISBN-10: 0819563285

ISBN-13: 9780819563286

Edition: 2000

Authors: Deborah Hay, Susan Foster

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Through a series of imaginative approaches to movement and performance, choreographer Deborah Hay presents a profound reflection on the ephemeral nature of the self and the body as the locus of artistic consciousness. Using the same uniquely playful poetics of her revolutionary choreography, she delivers one of the most revealing accounts of what art creation entails and the ways in which the body, the center of our aesthetic knowledge of the world, can be regarded as our most informed teacher. My Body, The Buddhist becomes a way into Hay's choreographic techniques, a gloss on her philosophy of the body (which shares much with Buddhism), and an extraordinary artist's primer. The book is…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 12/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 133
Size: 6.04" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682



Foreword



Acknowledgements


Introduction


My Body Benefits in Solitude


My Body Finds Energy in Surrender


My Body Enjoys Jokes, Riddles, and Games


My Body Engages in Work


My Body Commits to Practice


My Body Seeks Comfort But Not For Long


My Body is Limited by Physical Presence


My Body Knowingly Participates in its Appearances


My Body Likes Rest


My Body is Bored by Answers


My Body Seeks More Than One View of Itself


My Body Delights in Resourcefulness


My Body Trusts the Unknown


My Body Feels Weightless in the Presence of Paradox


My Body Equates Patience with Renewal


My Body Hears Many Voices, Not One Voice


My Body Relaxes When Thoughts Abate


My Body is Held in the Present


A Chronicle of Performance Practices