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Out Loud - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Out Loud - A Memoir (Paperback)
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From the most brilliant and audacious choreographer of our time,
the exuberant tale of a young dancer's rise to the pinnacle of the
performing arts world, and the triumphs and perils of creating work
on his own terms-and staying true to himself Before Mark Morris
became "the most successful and influential choreographer alive"
(The New York Times), he was a six year-old in Seattle cramming his
feet into Tupperware glasses so that he could practice walking on
pointe. Often the only boy in the dance studio, he was called a
sissy, a term he wore like a badge of honor. He was unlike anyone
else, deeply gifted and spirited. Moving to New York at nineteen,
he arrived to one of the great booms of dance in America. Audiences
in 1976 had the luxury of Merce Cunningham's finest experiments
with time and space, of Twyla Tharp's virtuosity, and Lucinda
Childs's genius. Morris was flat broke but found a group of
likeminded artists that danced together, travelled together, slept
together. No one wanted to break the spell or miss a thing, because
"if you missed anything, you missed everything." This collective,
led by Morris's fiercely original vision, became the famed Mark
Morris Dance Group. Suddenly, Morris was making a fast ascent.
Celebrated by The New Yorker's critic as one of the great young
talents, an androgynous beauty in the vein of Michelangelo's David,
he and his company had arrived. Collaborations with the likes of
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Yo-Yo Ma, Lou Harrison, and Howard Hodgkin
followed. And so did controversy: from the circus of his tenure at
La Monnaie in Belgium to his work on the biggest flop in Broadway
history. But through the Reagan-Bush era, the worst of the AIDS
epidemic, through rehearsal squabbles and backstage intrigues,
Morris emerged as one of the great visionaries of modern dance, a
force of nature with a dedication to beauty and a love of the body,
an artist as joyful as he is provocative. Out Loud is the
bighearted and outspoken story of a man as formidable on the page
as he is on the boards. With unusual candor and disarming wit,
Morris's memoir captures the life of a performer who broke the
mold, a brilliant maverick who found his home in the collective and
liberating world of music and dance.
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