A masterwork on the peerless dancemaster Morris

From: The Boston Globe | Date: February 6, 1994| Author: Christine Temin, Globe Staff | Copyright information

MARK MORRIS

By Joan Acocella. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 226 pp.

Illustrated. $27.50.

Christine Temin reviews dance and art for the Globe.

`My philosophy of dance? I make it up, and you watch it. End of philosophy." That was the response the upstart American choreographer Mark Morris gave to a Belgian reporter's question at a Brussels press conference in 1988, as Morris and his company were about to become, in effect, the national ballet of Belgium, enjo...