Moving Feeling Feeling Moved

There’s a sympathetic response to watching someone dance. It helps you stay alive. People watching people dance have incredible undisclosed empathy. When you see a great Indian dancer who suddenly has Krishna’s revelation, you get it, you feel it yourself.

—Mark Morris, quoted in Marina Harss, “Plainspoken: Mark Morris,” The Nation, 23/30 December 2013.

Mark Morris at the Ojai Music Festival, June 2013.