
Figure a Sea
Deborah Hay
2019 Borås Stadsteater
as apprentice for Cullberg
In Figure a Sea the dancer and the stage become a sea of endless possibilities. The choreography moves between being technically proficient and minimalist in its expression. It is intimately choreographed yet never the same. Hay challenges, without diminishing, the dancer’s intelligence, beauty, humor, and alacrity. Ease, accuracy, visibility, ambiguity and uniformity are the work’s key ingredients. Deborah Hay proposes the same set of “what if?” questions for the company dancers, as if stacking multiple meditations at once. They do not look at the world when they are dancing. They participate in it.
Composer: Laurie Anderson
Set and Lighting Design: Minna Tiikkainen
Sound Design: Martin Ekman
Costume: Marita Tjärnström
Rehearsal Director: Lisa Drake
Photo: Urban Jören