Monday, November 1, 2010
Have you seen Morris dance?
I could not get my eyes off of her, relation of the scenery and an inclined roof top level She dances on are equally interesting. Dancer manages to produce compelling movement that comes across engaging through video.....[view whole article here]
Friday, January 15, 2010
Saturday, November 8, 2008
The Ones to Watch
Chicago Tribune November 7, 2008
"She's one of our most important recent grads," says Bonnie Brooks. "She has a kind of intelligence that's not just an intellectual smartness--although she definitely has that, too. But she's got a kind of soul and spirit and body knowledge... FULL ARTICLE
Critic's Choice
Chicago Reader July 6, 2007 buy Laura Molzahn
Margaret Morris's Laying of Hands has the passion of youth and at least some of the wisdom of age. In this accomplished hour-long dance for five, she aims to look at healing, but her starting point is violence. Morris, a 2005 Columbia College grad who received a Chicago Dancemakers Forum grant to create the piece, isn't afraid to use straightforward movement--and it's shocking early on when... FULL ARTICLE
Hot Dance
Hot dance on stage and (small) screen tonight
Posted in Dance by Asimina Chremos on June 19th, 2008
Fans of the local jazz music scene know and love Nicole Mitchell, the ultracreative flutist, composer and bandleader. Turns out Margaret Morris, one of my favorite dancer-choregraphers, is bringing her vibrant, passionate improvisational stylings to Mitchell’s Xenogenesis Suite ...FULL ARTICLE
Posted in Dance by Asimina Chremos on June 19th, 2008
Fans of the local jazz music scene know and love Nicole Mitchell, the ultracreative flutist, composer and bandleader. Turns out Margaret Morris, one of my favorite dancer-choregraphers, is bringing her vibrant, passionate improvisational stylings to Mitchell’s Xenogenesis Suite ...FULL ARTICLE
Hands
‘Hands’ a zeitgeist of fear and trembling
By Sid Smith and Tribune Arts Critic
July 09, 2007
In biblical tradition, the laying of hands evokes such benign forces as blessing and healing. But in “Laying of Hands,” from Margaret Morris Dance, the landscape is one of angst, feral animosity and apocalypse... FULL ARTICLE
By Sid Smith and Tribune Arts Critic
July 09, 2007
In biblical tradition, the laying of hands evokes such benign forces as blessing and healing. But in “Laying of Hands,” from Margaret Morris Dance, the landscape is one of angst, feral animosity and apocalypse... FULL ARTICLE
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