Word: morrision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Morris' offstage performances have sometimes been as outrageous as his onstage productions. He first caused tongues to wag in 1984 when he jumped up in the middle of a performance of Twyla Tharp's Nine Sinatra Songs and shouted his displeasure at the stage before walking out. "I think she...
An open homosexual who customarily wears the pink triangle of gay liberation on his lapel, Morris regularly criticizes others in the dance community for failing to come out. "I'm tired of choreographers who are gay pretending that they are straight," he says. In his dances, duets are often performed...
He may dream up what for some are odd pas de deux, but this postmodern master maintains his allegiance to such old-fashioned values as form and narrative. "I am very, very strict structurally," he says. "You can break any rule you want, but you have to have a clue...
A precocious child, Morris and his two older sisters grew up in Seattle in a family that encouraged creativity. A typical party at the Morris home was a Bastille Day celebration in which guests were invited to come dressed as their favorite subject from the French Revolution. Morris' father William...
Moving to New York City in 1976, he whirled through a quick succession of jobs with such big-name choreographers as Eliot Feld, Lar Lubovitch, Laura Dean and Hannah Kahn. "I didn't have a giant attention span," he says, explaining why he was so peripatetic. But that was only...