Mark Morris
Mark Morris
Mark William Morrisis an American dancer, choreographer and director whose work is acclaimed for its craftsmanship, ingenuity, humor, and at times eclectic musical accompaniments. Morris is popular among dance aficionados, the music world, as well as mainstream audiences...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDancer
Date of Birth29 August 1956
CitySeattle, WA
CountryUnited States of America
class people want
I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.
people
So I'll do what I can to let people see that now.
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Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.
dance dancing people
I want people to look like people when they're dancing.
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I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.
people reason choreographers
The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.
people opera
There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.
people music-is recorded-music
Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.
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We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.
agree american-dancer art disney except horrible love obsessed walt
Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.
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Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.
children
Every child dances, and then you learn not to.
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Here we're talking about some galactic scale event that takes an already very massive cloud and just crushes it into extremely high densities forming, in one fell swoop, hundreds and hundreds of stars, most of which are far more massive than our own sun.
assume expected partners
You have to assume the partners are going to sell. It's to be expected when the restrictions are lifted.