My Body Binding: Paperback Publisher: Univ Pr of New England Publish Date: 2000/10/01 Synopsis: The choreographer argues that the body and the self is the focal point of artistic consciousness and explains this theory in chapters titled "my body likes to rest" and "my body finds energy in surrender." Language: ENGLISH Pages: 104 Dimensions: 9.25 x 5.75 x 0.50 Weight: 0.70
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 composed of nineteen short chapters (my body likes to rest, my body finds energy in surrender, my body is bored by answers), each an example of what Susan Foster calls Hay''s daily attentiveness to the body''s articulateness.
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