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What was this Morris tradition, entertainment, mystical rite, or some hybrid of the two? Where did it come from? After thirty years of dancing, teaching, and research, John Cutting attempts to answer these questions. From the earliest known references (1137 in Spain, 1448 in England) to the middle of the nineteenth century, Morris events are listed and examined. A parallel study looks at publications about Morris, from the Puritans down to the present day. Many illustrations portraying Morris or possible Morris dancers from the fourteenth century onwards are reproduced in the text. ... Read more

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A 'must'
Is Morris dance heritage mysticism, dance, or entertainment? It's long been shrouded in mystery, and research John Cutting spent some thirty years dancing, teaching and researching the Morris dance from its roots until 1850: HISTORY AND THE MORRIS DANCE: A LOOK AT MORRIS DANCING FROM ITS EARLIEST DAYS UNTIL 1850 follows its evolution and answers many questions. A 'must' for any college-level dance history holding.

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Dance scholarship is in the midst of explosive growth today, due in part to the current interest in the body, gender, and in performance studies in general, as well as to dancers and choreographers whose innovative work is reinvigorating the performance-going public's interest in dance. Now Moving Words offers students, scholars, and critics of dance and performance the latest word on the debates swirling within the world of dance.

Contributors confront basic questions of definition and interpretation within dance studies, while at the same time examing broader issues, such as the body, gender, class, race, nationalism, and cross-cultural exchange. Specific essays address such topics as the black male body in dance, gender and subversions in the dances of Mark Morris, race and nationalism in Martha Graham's American Document, and the history of Asian dance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3779 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bubble boy: Mark Morris at BAM. (Dance).
Author: Laura Jacobs
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2003
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 21Issue: 10Page: 43(7)

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With illustrations by J. Berryman.This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1807 edition by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 436 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mark Morris Dance Group.
Author: Allan Ulrich
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 79Issue: 12Page: 110(2)

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The Bible of Morris Dancing
This is *the* seminal work in the obscure, but highly entertaining art of Morris dancing. All other authors writing aboiut Morris dancing include this work in their bibliography. There have, of course, been differences ofopinion about the veracity of his descriptions of the dances. One's memorycan only hold so much, but he was basically the first person to formalizethe dances and traditions on paper and much of the modern revival of thedance traditions can be credited to his work in preserving it. ... Read more

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BY FRANCIS DOUCE --THE practice, and also the necessity of explaining the writings of Shakspeare, have alreacly been so ably defended by former commentators, that no other apology on the part of those who may elect to persevere in this kind of labour seems to be necessary than with regard to the qualifications of the writer but as no one in this case perhaps ever thought, or at least should think, himself incompetent to the task assumed of instructing or anlusillg others, it may be as well, on the present occasion, to waive altogether such a common-place intrusion on the readers time. It is enough to state that accident had given birth to a considerable portion of the following pages, and that design supplied the rest. The late Mr. Steevens hacl already in a manner too careless for his own reputation, and abundantly too favourable to his friend, presented to public view such of the authors remarks as were solely put together for the private use and consideration of that able critic. The former wish of their compiler has, with the present opportunity, been accomplished that is, some of them withdrawn, and others, it is hoped, rendered less exceptionable. The readers of Shakspeare may be properly divided into three classes. The first, as they travel through the text, appeal to each explanation of a word or passage as it occurs. The second read a large portion of the text, or perhaps the whole, uninterruptedly, and then consult the notes and the third reject the illustrations altogether. Of these the second appear to be the most rational. The last, with all their affectation, are probably the least learned, but will undoubtedly remain so and it may be justly remarked on this occasion, in the language of the writer who has best illustrated the principles of taste, that the pride of science is always meek and humble compared with the pride of ignorance. He, who at this day can entirely comprehend the writings of Shakspeare without the aid of a comment, and frequently of laborious illustration, may be said to possess a degree of inspiration almost conlillensurate with that of the great bard himself. Mr. Stecve ls has indeed sumrned up every necessary argunlent in his assertio l. that if Shakspeare is worth reading, he is worth explaining and the researches used for so valuable and elegant a purpose, merit the tl anliso f genius and cantlour, not the satire of prejudice and ignorance. The indefatigable exertions of Messrs. Steevens, BIalone, Tyrwhitt, ancl Alason, -ill ever be duly all-1 reciated by the true ancl zealous aclnlirers of Shalispeares pages. If the name of a celebrated critic and moralist be not i lcludedo n this occasion, it is because 11e was certairlly unsltilled in the linowledge of obsolete customs and exl ressions. His explanatory notes therefore are, generally speaking, the most controvertible of any but no future editor will dischal-ge his duty to the public who shall onlit a single sentence of this writers nasterly preface, or of his sound and tasteful characters of the plays of Shakspeare. Of all the commentators Dr. Warburton was surely the worst. His sentinlents indeed have been seldonl exhibited in modern editions but for the purpose of confuting them. The wide dispersion of those materials which are essential to the illustration of inquiries like the present, will necessarily frustrate every endeavour at perfection a circumstance that alone should teach every one discussing these difficult and obscure subjects, to speak of them with becoming diffidence... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2006. The length of the article is 697 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Debut: following in Mark Morris' footsteps.
Author: Susan Reiter
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 80Issue: 8Page: 75(1)

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2006. The length of the article is 805 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mark Morris Dance Group.(Four Saints in Three Acts)(Dance review)
Author: Amanda Smith
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 80Issue: 6Page: 119(2)

Article Type: Dance review

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 474 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mark Morris Dance Group.(Mozart Dances)(Dance review)
Author: Rose Anne Thom
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 80Issue: 11Page: 84(2)

Article Type: Dance review

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With illustrations by J. Berryman.This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1807 edition by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2006. The length of the article is 585 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mark Morris: square talk and round numbers.(DANCE MATTERS)
Author: Allan Ulrich
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 80Issue: 8Page: 19(1)

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2006. The length of the article is 617 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dancing for Mark: memories on a silver anniversary.(DANCE MATTERS)(Mark Morris)
Author: Allan Ulrich
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 80Issue: 3Page: 17(2)

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Mark Morris emerged in the 1980s as America's most exciting young choreographer. Two decades later, his position remains unchallenged. Morris was born in Seattle in 1956. His Mark Morris Dance Group began performing in New York in 1980. By the mid-eighties, PBS had aired an hour-long special on him, and his work was being presented by America's foremost ballet companies. Morris's dances are a mix of traditionalism and radicalism. They unabashedly address the great themes--love, grief, loneliness, religion, community--yet they are also lighthearted, irreverent, and scabrous.

Joan Acocella's probing portrait is the first book on this brilliant and controversial artist. Written with Morris's cooperation, it describes how he has lived and how he turns life--and music and narrative--into dance. Including 78 photographs, Mark Morris provides an ideal introduction to the life and work of one of America's leading artists. ... Read more

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Understanding the Artist and his Work
This book was fascinating!Mark Morris' work is brilliant, beautiful and new.This book offers insight into the artist's childhood and early introduction to the arts, traces the evolution of his company from itshumble and informal beginnings to its present place as one of theoutstanding modern companies in the world, and explores the themes Morris'work so often addresses.The insight into his complex character makeswatching his work still more rewarding.Includes many great photos. ... Read more

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This entertaining celebration of culture shows children different musical instruments and traditional forms of dance around the world. Fascinating photos feature unusual instruments and tradtional costumes from various cultures. ... Read more