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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 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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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. 2-7
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. foreword
  2. pp. ix-xviii
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  1. acknowledgments
  2. pp. xix-xxii
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  1. introduction
  2. pp. xxii-xxvi
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  1. 1 my body benefits in solitude
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  1. 2 my body finds energy in surrender
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  1. 3 my body enjoys jokes, riddles, and games
  2. pp. 9-15
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  1. 4 my body engages in work
  2. pp. 16-19
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  1. 5 my body commits to practice
  2. pp. 20-23
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  1. 6 my body seeks comfort but not for long
  2. pp. 24-26
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  1. 7 my body is limited by physical presence
  2. pp. 27-29
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  1. 8 my body knowingly participates in its appearances
  2. pp. 30-48
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  1. 9 my body likes rest
  2. pp. 49-52
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  1. 10 my body is bored by answers
  2. pp. 53-82
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  1. 11 my body seeks more than one view of itself
  2. pp. 54-58
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  1. 12 my body delights in resourcefulness
  2. pp. 59-63
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  1. 13 my body trusts the unknown
  2. pp. 64-73
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  1. 14 my body feels weightless in the presence of paradox
  2. pp. 74-77
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  1. 15 my body equates patience with renewal
  2. pp. 78-81
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  1. 16 my body hears many voices, not one voice
  2. pp. 82-96
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  1. 17 my body relaxes when thoughts abate
  2. pp. 97-98
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  1. 18 my body is held in the present
  2. pp. 99-102
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  1. a chronicle of performance practices by Deborah Hay
  2. pp. 103-104
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  1. about the authors
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