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Mark Morris

American ballet dancer and choreographer
Person Human Q711688

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[14]
Date of birth
August 29, 1956
Place of birth
Seattle
Country of citizenship
United States[6]
Occupation
artistic director, choreographer, dancer
Educated at
Franklin High School[7]
Award received
Guggenheim Fellowship, Bessie Awards, Capezio Dance Award, MacArthur Fellows Program, Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance[8][9][10][11][12]
Official website
www.markmorrisdancegroup.org[17]
Documentation files at
SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts[18]
Family name
Morris[15]
Given name
Mark[16]
Member of
American Academy of Arts and Sciences[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Mark Morris en Mark William Morris ar مارك موريس de Mark William Morris fa مارک موریس ja マーク・モリス・ダンス・グループ ja マーク・モリス (振付家) ja マーク・モリソン ru Марк Моррис tr Mark William Morris zh 马克·莫里斯
🔖 Identifiers · 53
ISNI
0000000081853179
VIAF cluster ID
116489477
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n86025454
GND ID
119235307
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Mark Morris, 2006.jpg ↗
Awards & Winners artist ID
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BBC Things ID
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Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
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Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
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CiNii Research ID
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Dezède person ID
21432
Discogs artist ID
3220863
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Douban movie celebrity ID
1052967
Douban personage ID
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
biography/Mark-Morris
FAST ID
226991
FID performing arts ID
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Film.ru person ID
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FranceArchives agent ID
635265213
Freebase ID
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Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Mark_Morris
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2644767
Grove Music Online ID
A2092604
Guggenheim fellows ID
mark-w-morris
HAND ID
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IDU person ID
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IMDb ID
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IdRef ID
146789369
J9U entity ID
987007452980105171
Kinobox person ID
889675
Les Archives du spectacle person ID
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Lex ID
Mark_Morris
Libraries Australia ID
35659498
MacArthur Fellows Program ID
441, class-of-1991/mark-morris
Media Library for Dance and Theatre person ID
2970
Munzinger person ID
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MusicBrainz artist ID
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NACSIS-CAT author ID
DA11961981
NLA Trove people ID
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National Library of Poland MMS ID
9810616444105606
National Portrait Gallery (London) person ID
mp70312
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
171902467
Oxford Reference overview ID
20110803100210593
Prabook ID
1308927
Quora topic ID
Mark-Morris-9
RERO ID (legacy)
A014263946
RILM ID
59788
SNAC ARK ID
w68p628w
SPAP ID
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TheaterEncyclopedie ID
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Union List of Artist Names ID
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WorldCat Entities ID
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Yale LUX ID
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Award received 5
Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, Bessie Awards, Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance, Capezio Dance Award
Occupation 3
dancer, choreographer, artistic director
Country of citizenship 1
United States
Family name 1
Morris
Given name 1
Mark
Instance of 1
human
Member of 1
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Place of birth 1
Seattle
Sex or gender 1
male
← Director of photography 1
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← FactGrid item ID 1
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Summary

Mark Morris was born on August 29, 1956[1], in Seattle[2]. He has worked as an artistic director[3], choreographer[4], and dancer[5].

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  • Type: Person[19]

  • Country: US[20]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 371887e4-8694-4911-a6ed-9e17e917bd2f[21]

FAQs

Where was Mark Morris born?

Mark Morris's place of birth was Seattle[2].

What did Mark Morris do for work?

Mark Morris worked as an artistic director[3], choreographer[4], and dancer[5].

Where did Mark Morris go to school?

Mark Morris was educated at Franklin High School[7].

What awards did Mark Morris receive?

Honors received include Guggenheim Fellowship[8], Bessie Awards[9], Capezio Dance Award[10], and MacArthur Fellows Program[11].

Related Entities

United States

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . Union List of Artist Names. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [5] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . Guggenheim Fellows database. wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . macfound.org. macfound.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [1] ↑ . Brockhaus Enzyklopädie. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . performing-arts.ch. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

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