Mark Morris may refer to:
I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.
I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.
I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up.
I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.
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.
Every child dances, and then you learn not to.
I want people to look like people when they're dancing.
Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.
If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.
Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.
As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.
The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.
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.
No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.