At Once
Choreography by Deborah Hay
Adapted and performed by Joe Moran
Touring 2009-2010
At Once | Performance dates | Lecture-performance | Artists
Deborah Hay is widely celebrated as one of the world’s most important dance experimentalists, acknowledged by both international critics and historians as one of the most influential representatives of postmodern dance. During the 1960s, Hay danced with the Cunningham Dance Company and a member of a group of experimental artists that was deeply influenced by Merce Cunningham and John Cage. The group, later known as the Judson Dance Theater and also including Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer, became one of the most radical and explosive 20th century art movements. Hay’s most recent group work, If I Sing to You (2008), a commission from The Forsythe Company, received audience and critical acclaim on its international tour. Notably in 2000, she created Single Duet for herself and Mikhail Baryshnikov which toured with the Past/Forward project.
‘There are aspects of dance performance that I had always accepted as a given. Working with Deborah Hay has deepened my understanding of what we do as dancers. She has helped bring a greater vitality to the stage’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov
Joe Moran is a London-based dance artist and Artistic Director of Dance Art Foundation. He creates dance and video works for theatres, galleries and public spaces. Joe recently choreographed Background, a film by visual artist Magali Reus (IBID Projects, London; La Salles des Bains, Lyon), Reform, a new work with projected visual imagery by British-Canadian artist Shaan Syed (Coventry, Dec 2009) and Keep Calm & Carry On, Cardboard Citizens Theatre Company (Cabinet War Rooms, May 2009). In the 2008/09 Dance Art season, his work was presented at London’s Herald St and Wilkinson galleries. As a dancer, Joe has worked with a number of distinguished choreographers including Deborah Hay, Siobhan Davies (Bank project), Stephanie Skura, Kate Brown, Florence Peake, Gaby Agis and Christopher House (Toronto Dance Theatre). Joe trained independently in dance and choreography at studios in London, New York, San Francisco and Seattle, following his undergraduate training in theatre at Bristol University.
‘He expresses his own willfully deviant dance vocabulary’ – Lindsey Clarke, londondance.com
At Once. Dancer: Joe Moran
Photography: David Edwards