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Dance Group
Overview
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Mark Morris
Artistic Director/Choreographer
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About MMDG
Dancers, Musicians, Designers, Staff and Board.
Upcoming Performances
Feb 21, 2019
Meany Center for the Performing Arts
Meany Theater
4140 George Washington Lane Northeast
Seattle, Washington
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Mark Morris
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Dance Center
Overview
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Dance Center
Dance and fitness classes for adults, rehearsal space, and community programming.
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The School
Children and teens 18 months to 18 years all levels and abilities.
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Dance Center
- Community
- Calendar
Works
MMDG Repertory

A Spell
Premiere
August 17, 1993
Edinburgh International Festival
Meadowbank Hall No. 1
Edinburgh Scotland
- Choreography
- Mark Morris
- Music
- John Wilson - "Where the Bee Sucks," "Stay, O Stay," "Do Not Fear to Put Thy Feet," "Take, O Take Those Lips Away"
- Costume design
- Susan Ruddie
- Lighting Design
- Michael Chybowski
- Number of Dancers
- 3
- Runtime
- 12 minutes
Costume design
Susan Ruddie
Susan Ruddie has worked for 25 years as a costume designer, costume director, milliner and textile artist. Susan's designs have toured the world with The Mark Morris Dance Group. She has designed off broadway plays, musicals, ballets and operas. Recent work includes the 25th anniversary national tour of Evita directed by Hal Prince, national tours of Fiddler in the Roof. and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat starring Patrick Cassidy; and a production of The Sound of Music which was the first Broadway musical to tour mainland China. Some of her favorites to dress have include Faith Prince, Martin Short, John Pizzarelli, Meryl Streep, Baryshnikov and Mark Morris. She ran the workroom for Grace Costumes and Eric Winterling Costumes where she supervised the construction of costumes for shows including "Little Mermaid", "Wicked", and "Phantom". Susan has dyed and painted costumes for Broadway, operas, ballets, Ringling Bros. Circus, and vegas shows. Susan's talent for working with feathers comes from years of making headdresses for the Radio City Rockettes.
Lighting Design
Michael Chybowski
Michael Chybowski has designed for The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh, Moby Dick and Other Stories with Laurie Anderson, Andre Belgrader’s production of Endgame (BAM Harvey), Cymbeline, Hair, Hamlet (New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre), The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (NYTW), and the original production of Wit. For MMDG, he has designed over 40 dances, including the recent Crosswalk, Jenn and Spencer, A Wooden Tree, and Acis and Galatea, as well as Four Saints in Three Acts for English National Opera and Falling Down Stairs, which toured internationally with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Recent work includes Mark Morris’ Beaux for San Francisco Ballet, Kammermusik No.3 for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Isaac Mizrahi’s directorial debut with A Little Night Music at Opera Theatre of St. Louis. He received an American Theatre Wing design award for his lighting of Cymbeline and Wit, a Lucille Lortel award for The Grey Zone by Tim Blake Nelson, and a 1999 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.
The mission of the Mark Morris Dance Group is to develop, promote, and sustain dance, music, and opera productions by Mark Morris and to serve as a cultural resource to engage and enrich the community.
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