Mark Morris Dance Group

Dances to American Music
Tue Jul 14 - Sat Jul 25

Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble returns to The Joyce with Dances to American Music, a three-program repertory series highlighting Morris’s lifelong devotion to music. 

Soul of America (Program A) features live music of Jazz innovators James P. Johnson and George Gershwin, American Heartbeat (Program B) includes a full program of early recorded music by American Country legends Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, The Louvin Brothers, and George Jones, while American Mavericks (Program C) is set to the expansive scores of West Coast composers Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison.

Program

Program Dates

 

Program A – Soul of America: Jazz and Pop
Pizzica (New York Premiere)
Three Preludes
Dancing Honeymoon
You’ve Got to Be Modernistic

 

Tue, Jul 14 at 7:30pm, Wed, Jul 15 at 7:30pm, 
Fri, Jul 17 at 7:30pm,
Sat, Jul 18 at 2pm

Program B – American Heartbeat: Country and Western
Songs That Tell A Story
Deck of Cards
Going Away Party

 

Thu, Jul 16 at 7:30pm, Sat, Jul 18 at 7:30pm, Thu, Jul 23 at 7:30pm, Sat, Jul 25 at 7:30pm
Program C – American Mavericks: West Coast Composers
Prelude and Prelude
Jenn and Spencer
Pacific
Grand Duo
Tue, Jul 21 at 7:30pm, Wed, Jul 22 at 7:30pm, Fri, Jul 24 at 7:30pm, Sat, Jul 25 at 2pm

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