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- The Washington Post
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- April 16, 1995
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NONFICTIONMark Morris, by Joan Acocella (Noonday, $17). When
ballet master Maurice Bejart walked out on Belgium's Theatre Royal de
la Monnaie in 1987, a 32-year-old American was put in his place.
Belgians were flabbergasted. As Joan Acocella says, Mark Morris
"didn't look like an opera-house dance director. He had long, shaggy
hair, and he wore a cowboy shirt." Things got more interesting: He
took curtain calls in flip-flops and bermuda shorts, appeared at
"meet the choreographer" symposia sucking on a beer bottle. He turned
interviews inevitably toward the subject of his homosexuality, and
when Belgium's Queen Fabiola was greeted in the Monnaie's foyer with
shouts of "Vive la reine!" ...