Mark Morris

by Joan Acocella

Book Overview

Mark Morris is the most exciting and important choreographer to have emerged in the last two decades. Still only in his mid-thirties, Morris has already produced more than eighty dance works, and their originality, brashness, and beauty have made him one of the signature American artists of our time. Morris was born in Seattle in 1956. His Mark Morris Dance Group began performing in New York in 1980. By the mid-eighties, PBS had aired an hour-long...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374202958
• ISBN13: 9780374202958
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Understanding the Artist and his Work

This book was fascinating! Mark Morris' work is brilliant, beautiful and new. This book offers insight into the artist's childhood and early introduction to the arts, traces the evolution of his company from its humble and informal beginnings to its present place as one of the outstanding modern companies in the world, and explores the themes Morris' work so often addresses. The insight into his complex character makes watching his work still more rewarding. Includes many great photos.