National Museum of Dance exhibition

Mark MorrisDance | Music | Legacy !

National Museum of Dance Saratoga, NY!

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Presentation recapping initial concepts of an exhibition co-curated !by Alexandro Pacheco and the Mark Morris Dance Group, !

including a preview showing final layout in conjunction with !Laura DiRado, Exhibitions Coordinator & Designer

Photos of exhibition as well as portfolio highlights !compiled, edited and owned by Alexandro Pacheco!

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“Music is my raison d’etre. Really, it’s that simple. It’s why I choreograph dances. It’s why I love Walt Disney, it’s why I whistle constantly, it’s why I started a company and built a building and established a school in Brooklyn dedicated to the form and function of music and dance.”

Mark Morris

Personal Quote

Dance | Music | Legacy

”Many f irst-class choreographers begin as superb dancers....But in certain respects this is an unlucky combination...the dancer-choreographer is likely to choose choreography over his or her dance, and then to resent the company…. and then there’s Mark Morris and his group of friends.’’

Joan Acocella

Biographer’s Note


Mikhail Baryshnikov

Morris’s inspiration is music but his works would not be possible in their final incarnation without the collaborators

around him, most of them his friends.


“In his work and in life, he is very much full of joy.”

Mark Morris

National Museum of Dance Saratoga Springs, NY

The exhibition will show the work, collaborations and institution behind director/choreographer Mark Morris, legendary for his

musicality and keen on the simplicity and sensitivity the corporeal musical experience offered by the live experience brings. All large

quotes embedded within the exhibition will be taken from previously written material in an effort to focus on two equal points of view:

Initial Curatorial Statement

Mark Morris

The Personal Side The Public/Critical Side&


Mark Morris Proposal !Dance | Music | Legacy

Ten Suggestions Portraits A. (White Oak Dance Project)

iPad Wall H.

B. Dido& Aeneas

I. The Hard Nut

J.Musicality

(Rhymes With Silver: Lou Harrison/

Howard Hodgkin/ Yo-Yo Ma)

M. Programs from Brussels (Peter Sellars)

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C. Behind the Scenes

(Rehearsal/Creation)

D. L’Allegro (Dance, Music

& Literacy Project)

E.Early Life

F.Dance Center

G.MM As Dancer

K. King Arthur

Theme Key !(to be used only as a guide for bullet point descriptions and through line, !

NOT INTENDED TO BE FINAL LAYOUT)

Working Notes (lists/themes considered throughout the build)

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( DA F 9 0 A F L H 9 AF HF A G H F 9CA ) 2 9 9 - H!2A 3FD O ,H C HF GHF H9D 9 GF H -FCC9 FH9 AF F F 39 3AB 9AC ,9H ABFL 2F 19HHA F 1FM9H 1F BA 9 - H 9 FH 5 2AL 3 A /FH CC 9 MA 33 0

FFC ( 2 H G H F 9C H9MA 9DAC F A O) 4G H9 9 ,9CC!

D -H 9 AL 5HF H 9H 9C AD9 3 2 4 H 9 4 A 9 AF GHF H9D - AC FF

( 9 - H FFC C - AC GHF H9D ) /FHD H H

Audio wall featuring headsets connected to looping tracks. Each track will an episode of Music I Want You To Hear, Morris’s third radio show recorded during a Guest-Lectureship at Centenary College, Hackestown, NJ.

Video Walls Featured dances should take the viewer on to separate side bars which elevate the experience and build on the story being told.

Radio Shows

Featured Works a) L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato!b) Dido and Aeneas!c) The Hard Nut!d) Ten Suggestions!e) King Arthur!f) Rhymes With Silver

The preceding slides were used in an initial presentation to!MMDG and the National Museum of Dance, April 2015.!

!The photos that follow were taken minutes prior to !

the opening of the exhibition, August 8, 2015.

The final exhibition is currently on view in Saratoga, NY through July 2016

National Museum of Dance exhibition

Presentations & Public Speaking

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