Works
MMDG Repertory

Etudes Modernes
Premiere
February 13, 1981
Jersey City Museum
Mark Morris Dance Group - Jersey City Museum
Jersey City, New Jersey United States
- Choreography
- Mark Morris
- Music
- Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano: "Pathétique"; "Espagnole"; "Hystérique"; "Plastique"
- Number of Dancers
- 4
- Runtime
- 21 min
Details
In 1982, Morris recast this work with all women, deleted its musical introduction ("Prelude"), and meshed its remaining four parts with the three parts of 1982's Jr. High, an all-male dance also set to Nancarrow's player piano studies. The cast of the final section, "Plastique," was expanded from 4 to 13.