Choreographer Mark Morris to Speak at Yale

One of the world's most celebrated and provocative contemporary choreographers, Mark Morris, will deliver a lecture at Yale on Monday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m.

One of the world’s most celebrated and provocative contemporary choreographers, Mark Morris, will deliver a lecture at Yale on Monday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m.

Hailed as the “enfant terrible” of dance, Morris formed his own company in 1980 at the age of 24 and is famous for the wide breadth and originality of his choreographic vision. He has created more than 100 works for the Mark Morris Dance Group, which has performed across the nation and in Europe.

From 1988 to 1991, Morris was the director of dance for the national opera house in Brussels, and his troupe became the national dance company of Belgium. During that tenure, Morris created three full-length dances: “The Hard Nut” (a spoof of the perennial Christmas favorite “The Nutcracker”), L’Allegro, il Penserose ed il Moderatoro” and “Dido and Aeneas.”

In 1990, he founded the White Oak Dance Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Morris has created works for many of the major ballet companies in the United States and Europe – American Ballet Theater, the San Francisco Ballet, the Boston Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet among them – and his work has entered the standard repertory of such renowned companies as the Geneva Ballet, the New Zealand Ballet and the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden.

Morris is also an accomplished director of opera productions and has worked extensively for the New York City Opera, the English National Opera and Covent Garden. The choreographer collaborated with cellist Yo-Yo Ma to create the Emmy Award winning film “Falling Downstairs.”

In 1991 Morris received a MacArthur “Genius” Award, and he has received several honorary doctorates.

“An Evening with Mark Morris,” which is free and open to the public, takes place at Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

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