"The intention of my work is to dislodge assumptions about the fixity of the three-dimensional body."--Deborah Hay

Her movements are uncharacteristic, her words subversive, her dances unlike anything done before--and this is the story of how it all works. A founding member of the famed Judson Dance Theater and a past performer in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Deborah Hay is well known for choreographing works using large groups of trained and untrained dancers whose surprising combinations test the limits of the art. "Lamb at the Altar" is Hay's account of a four-month seminar on...