Article: Attitudes.(the work of choreographer Mark Morris)

The great Merce Cunningham once titled one of his works How To Kick, Pass, Fall and Run. Well, I'm not so sure about kicking and passing (unless you have a football handy), but falling and running are essential to a choreographer's art, as are walking, jumping, hopping, and sometimes standing still. But all these specific and, significantly, natural movements are today the building blocks that assist choreographers in their dance architecture. And it is these same building blocks that play such a potent role in the dance-making of that modern master, Mark Morris.

The overruling kinetic theme of his work is complexity presented through simplicity. But simple for ...

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