Mark Morris: Music I Want You To Hear
On the Membership Dashboard: You’ve Got to Be Modernistic
At the Mark Morris Dance Center: Open Company Class with A.I.M
Mark Morris Dance Center’s 1st Annual
Community Day
November 9th marked our first annual Community Day at the Dance Center!
Our Dance Center staff and dance faculty hosted hundreds of dancers of all ages and abilities and experience levels to take part in classes ranging from Ballet to Intergenerational West African to Hip-Hop to Broadway Jazz Family Fun and Restorative Movement. Attendees were also invited to watch screenings of Mark Morris’ L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, as well as Dance for PD’s Capturing Grace. We ended the day of movement with a lively dance party celebrating our community.
All photos by John Eng
Mark Morris: Music I Want You To Hear
November is a moment of transition, the days become shorter and the weather gets chillier– it’s a great time to slow down, pick up a good book, or “really” listen to music. That’s where Mark’s Big Idea Music playlist comes in. The music on this list is big, profound, and transportive. “I love it all,” says Mark. “I suggest listening to the individual works straight through. No shuffle please.”
On the Membership Dashboard:Behind the Scenes with the Mark Morris Dance Group
In partnership with A.I.M, the Dance Center will begin hosting monthly Open Company Classes taught by the dancers of A.I.M. The classes will emphasize four of the company’s core movement values: exploration, musicality, abandonment, and intuition. Class takers will be led through warm-up sequences focused on fluidity of the spine, articulation, and core body strengthening. The class builds to include challenging, creative, and invigorating phrase work which are signature to the A.I.M movement vocabulary.
We’re so excited to bring this partnership to the Dance Center and to our adult class takers!
