Mark William Morris quotes

I was an "other," as people call now. But you know, everybody's other than everybody else...I used what was called the "sissy test" - you know, look at your fingernails; if you do it a certain way, you're a butch or a femme. But it turned into a little bit of a look back when I made up a dance based on the quotidian humiliations of junior high school - that age, that degree of development and that confusion and annoyance that happens. (Mark William Morris)

I like working with grown-up dancers much better, because there's somebody to talk to at the airport when you're delayed. In the middle of class, they hate me for it, but I always say, ‘What are you reading right now?' or ‘Did you see this movie?' or ‘Who wrote that piece of music?' I do little quizzes to keep people involved and not just to become robotic dancing machines, because I hate to watch that.

Mark William Morris

If that means that it's not for everybody, then yes. "Elitist" doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.

Mark William Morris