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"The choreography
Do you relate to the presence of a straight path? It is always there, whether it is followed or not. What if your experience of a straight path is a source of real or imagined security, order, clarity and strength within the construct of Beauty? What if departing from the path takes into account your revolutionary spirit, providing space for the anarchist, the individualist, the surly, the part of you who enjoys playing the odds, testing the limits? She’s the emblem of the land I love, the home of the free and the brave. You can leave the path because you know where it is when you want to return. Are you willing to take risks? Are you serious enough to risk foolishness? What do you think of life without foolishness? What if what really matters is that you remain doggedly aware of the dog path whether you are on or off of it, getting what you need wherever you choose to be? Let freedom ring. What if being off the path is performed not from obstinacy or will but as a voice for change, nuance, absurdity, beauty, inclusion? My country tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing… The world flowers when you depart from the straight path because excitement arises through your proximity to, as well as your distance from it. What if a real and/or imagined straight path is the only measure by which you know where you are? The path is your bearing. And, what if your choice to perceive and surrender beauty as life unfolds, on the path, or off the path, is your only means of survival? O beautiful, for spacious skies…
At the far end of the straight path, in quadrant I (choreography*), Beauty travels counter-clockwise, first away from, and then returning to the straight path.
The journey is along a single curve, like the outline of a pregnant belly. Stand beside her, and guide her, through the night with the light from above…What if beauty is the innate performance of feminine power, before memory, without signification, and inclusive of emotion? Pure memory, like a dog with a snake in its jaws, a gorgeous management of energy.
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In quadrant II (choreography *), Beauty is ‘work’, symbolized by repetitive and insistent movement, driven by a passion to survive, a determination to exist for another year, no matter the cost. At some point you even get down on the floor with no drive to make this look good, driven by the desire to experience beauty wherever you are. You deliberately avoid smooth action, economy, or alignment. You do not make it easy just because you are performing in front of an audience. You are unbeguiling, and driven, caught in making your work. You are a rat. You will not be mislead by looking for beauty in shape and/or content. You notice beauty for infinitesimally small instances. It is gorgeous. It is enough.
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What if, upon coming up to the staged and metaphorical straight path once more, you imagine getting everything you need or think you need, like silence in the middle of the day. (...) Every heart beats true…"
in Notes for the performer of Beauty
about "Beauty", * Choreography, Performance, and Text by Deborah Hay
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