MARK MORRIS (SIGNED)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1993. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Dark brown boards with debossed lettering of dancer's name, white spine with copper lettering. One or two corners ever-so-slightly nudged, and a very small shelf-bump to lower edge of rear board. Small area of shelf-fraying to very bottom of book itself, and slight foldover to top -- of book itself. "...Seventy-eight photographs covering the entire corpus of Morris's work to date...an ideal introduction to the life and work of America's leading young choreographer. SIGNED BY MARK MORRIS on Front Free Endpaper. Very Good. Item #87785
"...Mark Morris has been hailed as “the most successful and influential choreographer alive, and indisputably the most musical” (New York Times). In addition to creating over 150 works for the Mark Morris Dance Group, he conducts orchestra, directs opera, and choreographs for ballet companies worldwide. Morris’ work is acclaimed for its ingenuity, musicality, wit, and humanity. Named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1991, he has received eleven honorary doctorates to date, and a multitude of awards, including the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement Award for the Elevation of Music in Society, the Benjamin Franklin Laureate Prize for Creativity, the Cal Performances Award for Distinction in the Performing Arts, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s Gift of Music Award, and the 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award. In 2015, Morris was inducted into the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, New York. Morris’ memoir, Out Loud, co-written with Wesley Stace, was published by Penguin Press in 2019."
(San Francisco Ballet Site)
By the time Mark Morris was in his mid-thirties, he had "...already produced more than eighty dance works and their originality, brashness and beauty have made him one of the signature American artists of our time..." The author's "...probing portrait is the first book on this brilliant and controversial artist...part biography, part critical study, it describes how he has lived and h ow he turns life --a nd music and narrative -- into dance. It also covers Morris's three years as director of dance at the Royal Opera House in Brussels, where the classical aesthetic and sexyual boldness of his dances precipitated an international scandal..."
(Dustjacket flap notes).
Price: $150.00