Mark Morris Dance Group

Program B: American Heartbeat - County and Western
"Home (Excerpt 1)", "Deck of Cards", "Home" (Excerpt 2"), "Songs that Tell a Story", "Home" (Excerpt 3)", "Going Away Party"
Program C: American Mavericks - West Coast Composers
"Prelude and Prelude", "Jenn and Spencer", "Pacific", "Grand Duo"
Mark Morris Dance Group
The Joyce Theater
New York, NY 
July 21, 2026 (Program C), July 23, 2026 (Program B)

Programs B and C of Mark Morris’s all-American music season had distinctly different approaches.

Program A: Soul of America--Jazz and Pop
"Pizzica", "Three Preludes", "Dancing Honeymoon", 'You've Got To Be Modernistc"
Mark Morris Dance Group
The Joyce Theater
New York, NY 
July 14, 2026

Mark Morris is honoring the American semisesquicentennial—a long word meaning 250th anniversary—with a long look at his works choreographed to American music.  The first of the three programs saluted earlier popular composers, primarily Louis Moreau Gottschalk (“Pizzica”), George Gershwin “Three Preludes”, and the early

"The Muir", "You've Got To Be Modernistic", "Silhouettes", "Mosaic and United" (Program A)
'"The Argument", "Northwest", "Ten Suggestions", "Going Away Party" (Program B)
Mark Morris Dance Group
The Joyce Theater
New York, NY 
July 16, 2025 (Program A) and July 24, 2025 (Program B)

Choreographers use music in many ways; it can provide atmosphere, humming along politely in the background, it can be a floor supporting the dancers, it can hint at a narrative, or it can weave

Mark Morris Dance Group
"Behemoth", "Looky", and "Socrates"
BAM Opera House
Brooklyn, New York
February 23, 2010

The Mark Morris Dance Company gave a brief season at BAM, with two works new to New York, "Looky" (2007), and the new ballet "Socrates", in addition to the 1990 "Behemoth".  Morris, though always musical and inventive, has at times seemed deliberately quirky and overly cute, but this program was rich and moving.  "Behemoth" showed his contrary side--this most musically