Dance in America -- Mark Morris. PBS Great Performances, 1986.

This PBS “Great Performances: Dance in America — Mark Morris” TV special first aired October 10, 1986. Besides some remarkable performances featuring Mark Morris and his Company, we are treated to interviews with Mark discussing his work. Program contents (1986 “Dance in America — Mark Morris”) Songs That Tell a Story (Robe of White) — trio. Music by the Louvin Brothers Dogtown — group work. Music by Yoko Ono Prelude — contrasts of soloist & corps. Music by Henry Cowell Love, You Have Won — duet with mirrored movement. Antonio Vivaldi’s solo cantata Amor, hai vinto (RV 651). Jealousy — solo for Morris. Music by Handel, Hercules, HWV 60, Act II chorus “Jealousy! Infernal pest.” Tamil Film Songs in Stereo, Pas de Deux — satiric duet (Morris & Penny Hutchinson) Gloria (to Vivaldi) — closes the program Thomas Grimm, director. Holly Brubach, writer I need to apologize for the three-plus minute gap between Prelude and Love, You Have Won. I taped this in 1986 using my Sony 8mm Video8 camcorder, the CCD-V8AF, so sorry about the image quality. I obviously don't have permission to post this though it's not available otherwise on YouTube. It's a wonderful program -- the Company's performance of Gloria alsways leaves me in tears -- but I will take it down if requested to do so.