Words matter. These are the best Mark Morris Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m very tough.
I love the way in which I make up dances. It’s a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don’t need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that’s wonderful.
I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.
Here’s the thing, I’ve been cooking more and more and I’m pretty good; the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it’s expensive.
I have a beautiful, big bathtub.
‘Elitist’ doesn’t need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that’s no bad thing.
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 love making up titles.
I’m not after a closed system, I mean I’m after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don’t think that everything should be decided.
A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It’s not the performance.
The one reason people don’t take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don’t take dance seriously.
Being queer you’re supposed to adore figure skating. It’s a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he’s real. It’s a full gay thing and it always has been.
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.
Audiences don’t want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.
I’m really drawn to West Coast composers and I think it has a little something to do with looking across the Pacific instead of looking across the Atlantic.
It never occurred to me that I’d have a dance company.
That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I’m loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.
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.
