At Length with Steve Scher
At Length with Mark Morris
Prior to his Graduate School Public Lecture, Dancing Beyond Boundaries, Mark Morris, founder of the Mark Morris Dance Center, sat down for a conversation with At Length host Steve Scher, ’87.
Recorded on March 4, 2015
Poster from the lecture, Mark Morris: Dancing Beyond Boundaries. Click to enlarge.
As a dancer, choreographer, opera director and conductor, Mark Morris is a prolific creative mind whose work transcends mediums. Steve Scher describes the MacArthur fellow and Seattle native as “an innovator, a satirist and a romantic,” who most of all is “a choreographer suffused with music.” He also describes Morris as the “Marshawn Lynch of dance interviews.”
In this conversation, Morris discusses his influences, how he runs the Mark Morris Dance Center as “an open buffet of dancing and music,” how all music “doesn’t automatically make you want dance to it” and his belief that, even today, “dance is not well respected.”
