From the most brilliant and audacious choreographer of our time, the exuberant tale of a young dancerâ€™s rise to the pinnacle of the performing arts world, and the triumphs and perils of

Out Loud: A Memoir

From the most brilliant and audacious choreographer of our time, the exuberant tale of a young dancerâ€™s rise to the pinnacle of the performing arts world, and the triumphs and perils of creating work on his own termsâ€”and staying true to himself
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Before Mark Morris became â€œthe most successful and influential choreographer aliveâ€ (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.Â

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 Cunninghamâ€™s finest experiments with time and space, of Twyla Tharpâ€™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 â€œif you missed anything, you missed everything.â€ This collective, led by Morrisâ€™s fiercely original vision, became the famed Mark Morris Dance Group.

Suddenly, Morris was making a fast ascent. Celebrated byÂ The New Yorkerâ€™s critic as one of the great young talents, an androgynous beauty in the vein of Michelangeloâ€™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 LoudÂ 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, Morrisâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Penguin Press
Manufacturer Penguin Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 0735223076_used
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2019-10-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780735223073

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin Press
Manufacturer	Penguin Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	0735223076_used
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2019-10-22
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780735223073

Out Loud: A Memoir

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