Out Loud: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

From the most brilliant and audacious choreographer of our time, the exuberant tale of a dancer’s rise towards the pinnacle of the performing arts world, as well as the triumphs and perils of fabricating focus on his own terms-and staying true to himself

Before Tag Morris became “probably the most successful and influential choreographer alive” (The New York Moments), he was a six year-old in Seattle cramming his ft into Tupperware glasses in order that he could practice going for walks on pointe. Often the only boy about Out Loud: A Memoir in the dance studio, he was known as a sissy, a term he wore such as a badge of honor. He was unlike other people, deeply gifted and spirited.

Moving to New York at nineteen, he came to 1 of the great booms of dance in the us. Audiences in 1976 acquired the luxury of Merce Cunningham’s finest experiments with time and space, of Twyla Tharp’s virtuosity, and Lucinda Childs’s genius. Morris was level broke but discovered several likeminded artists that danced jointly, travelled jointly, slept together. No-one wished to break the spell or miss a thing, because “in the event that you missed anything, you skipped everything.” This collective, led by Morris’s fiercely original eyesight, became the famous Tag Morris Dance Group.

Instantly, Morris was producing a fast ascent. Celebrated by The New Yorker’s critic as one of the great young abilities, an androgynous beauty in the vein of Michelangelo’s David, he and his business had appeared. Collaborations with famous brands Mikhail Baryshnikov, Yo-Yo Ma, Lou Harrison, and Howard Hodgkin followed. And so do controversy: from the circus of his tenure at La Monnaie in Belgium to his work on the largest flop in Broadway background. But through the Reagan-Bush period, the worst from the Helps epidemic, through rehearsal squabbles and backstage intrigues, Morris surfaced as one of the great visionaries of modern dance, a force of nature having a dedication to beauty and a appreciate of your body, an musician as joyful as he is provocative.

Out Loud could be the bighearted and outspoken tale of a man as formidable in the page as he is on the boards. With uncommon candor and disarming wit, Morris’s memoir catches the life of a performer who broke the mold, a brilliant maverick who found his home in the collective and liberating world of music and dance.