"What if the question 'What if where I am is what I need?' is not about what you need but an opportunity to inhabit the question 'What if where I am is what I need?'?"
— Deborah Hay ‘Tools for the dancer’
Deborah Hay’s Solo Performance Commissioning Project requires the participating artists to raise £1100 from their community to pay the commissioning fee. Below is a list of friends, family, colleagues and organisations that have co-commissioned the project.
Keren Kossow, Bob Whalley, Lee Miller, Bagryana Popov, Bex Ellis-Pedersen, Kath Papas, Ben Park, Jonathan Craig, Ann David, Rachel Krische, Helen Exler, Vida Midgelow, Efrosini Protopapa, Jason Maling (Field Theory), Eddie Nixon, Shannon Bott, Jan McLean, Dancehouse (Melbourne), Clare Dyson, David Corbet, Stephanie Jordan, Jacob Lehrer, Shona Erskine, Ida Bluebell, davidandjacob.com, Cormac Lally, Meredith Rogers, Jeremy Crow, Raewyn Hill, Jess Devereux, Helen Herbertson, Patricia Boyce, Shaun McLeod, Amy Howard, Anna Pakes, Lee Christofis, Studio 202 (Melbourne), Backlit Productions (Auckland), Sam Bloore, Georgia Cribb, Tom Dale, Sara Houston, Mel Davis, Prani Hodges, Jane Bacon, Ian Edmond, Shayne Farquhar, Tim Halliday, Carol Brown, Christian Burns, Rhianne Benger, Kirstie Simson, Natalie Cursio, Erica Stanton, Lalitaraja, Bianca Hester, Andrée Grau, Auckland University Dance, Ruby Ellis-Whitty, Finn Ellis-Whitty, Roehampton Dance and Fiona Bryant.
Follow the development of I think not at skellis.net/spcp/notes.
Performances:
- 8 March 2012 — Embrace, Leicester 7.30pm; presented with Sally Doughty's adaptation of I think not
- 4 April 2012 — National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, University of Auckland, 7pm
- 13 April 2012 — What Matters, Siobhan Davies Studio 4pm