Alastair Macauley says rhythm is why Deborah Hay’s As Holy Sites Go (to be performed here Dec. 8) “seems never to be just a formal dance but to be a larger image of life. Tempo, meter, dynamics constantly change, giving the sense always of an inner spirit.”

Northrop Auditorium’s director of concerts and lectures is leaving for LA to oversee the USA Fellows program. At the United States Artists Foundation, Ben Johnson will administer annual grantmaking to 50 artists in all disciplines.

Due out March 19, Low’s new album The Invisible Way is being produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy. The Minnesota trio last played the Walker during Morgan Thorson’s 2010 dance work Heaven, while Wilco headlined Rock the Garden 2003.

A founding member of the Judson Dance Theater, Deborah Hay went from postmodern dance in Greenwich Village in the 1960s to living virtually off the grid in the 1970s, developing a pioneering practice that transforms the relationship between choreographer and dancer. Once an outlier, Hay is now a quiet but powerful force in dance—a “choreographer’s choreographer” whose work matters to the rest of us.

Neo-hip-hop choreographer/dancer Kyle Abraham has just won a two-year residency and commission with New York Live Arts. The invite-only residency will result in a new work, to debut in September 2014. Abraham performs at the Walker in March.

“This is an exhibition as Gesamkunstwerk,” writes Andrea Kirsh of the Philadelphia Museum’s Philippe Parreno–designed show Dancing Around the Bride, which explores the interconnected lives of Duchamp, Cunningham, Cage, and others.

Students in Wesleyan’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance are adding context to the RoseLee Goldberg–curated Performance Now show. Online reflections include the Walker’s Michèle Steinwald on Jérôme Bel and Abigail Sebaly on Jesper Just.

This year’s Bessies winners includes many performers familiar to Walker audiences, from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (its Armory Show finale took “outstanding production”) to Minneapolis’ Emily Johnson to Out There 25’s Trajal Harrell.

Marcel Duchamp’s impact on art history is well-known, but the Barbican’s newly announced multimedia season, gets specific, digging into how the Dada trickster influenced John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns.