Mark Morris on Private Passions with Michael Berkeley 17th March 2019

Mark Morris on Private Passions with Michael Berkeley 17th March 2019

Over the last 40 years, Mark Morris has established a reputation as the most musical of choreographers.

Inspired by both baroque and twentieth-century music, he’s most famously choreographed Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” – he danced both Dido and the sorceress himself - and his witty version of The Nutcracker, “The Hard Nut”, has been so popular that it’s been staged every year for almost 30 years.

Mark Morris has worked in opera too, directing and choreographing productions for the Metropolitan Opera, the English National Opera and The Royal Opera, among others.

He tours extensively but home is the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, which runs outreach programmes into the local New York community.

He’s received numerous awards, including the Leonard Bernstein Award for the Elevation of Music in Society.