Daily Inspiration Quote by Mark Morris

The line lands like a dancer’s sidestep away from a trap: Mark Morris acknowledges the gravitational pull of biology and sex difference, then refuses to let it choreograph the whole room. “Usually that’s going into biology in a certain way” hints at how quickly conversations about bodies become policing mechanisms in art - what roles “fit,” what movement reads as “masculine” or “feminine,” which strengths get praised and which get quietly disqualified. Morris doesn’t pretend those cultural scripts don’t exist; he points to them as default settings.

The most telling phrase is “I’m not against employing those nor am I against denying those.” It’s a double permission slip. In dance, gender can be an instrument (weight-bearing partnering, costume codes, archetypes) or something to deliberately blur, invert, or discard. Morris is staking out creative sovereignty: the point isn’t to enforce difference or erase it, but to keep it available as one choice among many.

“Very large array of options” is the real thesis, and it’s political without sounding like a manifesto. It reframes gender not as an identity test but as a palette. The subtext pushes back against purity culture on both sides: the old-school essentialism that treats sex as destiny, and the newer tendency to act as if acknowledging physical variance is automatically reactionary. Coming from a choreographer shaped by late-20th-century battles over masculinity, queerness, and the body onstage, it reads as a pragmatic artistic demand: stop narrowing the casting, the movement vocabulary, the meanings. Let the work breathe.