![]() ![]() But in his memoir, pointedly titled Out Loud, Morris defends his one-liner: “It was looked upon as a snub or a provocation, but… it’s the truth.” ![]() End of philosophy.” It was the first of a series of pungent obiter dicta that would infuriate the Belgian press and audiences. What, asked a journalist, was his philosophy of dance? Morris’s predecessor, Maurice Béjart, had been a prodigious philosophiser, providing “30 pages of programme notes for every new dance.” But Morris’s answer ran to far fewer than 30 words: “I make it up and you watch it. In 1988, newly installed as the director of dance at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels at the age of 32, the choreographer Mark Morris gave his first press conference. ![]() Acts of expressiveness: Mark Morris in 1984. ![]()
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