ABSTRACT
One of the things that has endeared Mark Morr is to his audience is the emphatically human look of his company. In the t roupe 's early days, the women tended to be large - the 'girls' basketball team', someone com' mented at a 1983 concert - and the men small. In other words, they looked more like regular people than like a dance company, where size differences between the sexes are greater than the human norm. But what is most strik' ing about the lineup of dancers who have passed through the Morr is company is simply the physical variety within the group. Some of the women are large, and have discernibly female bodies. Others are tiny. One of the men, Guillermo Resto, looks like a wrestler; others are delicately built. One man is grey'haired, another balding. Two have dreadlocks. Morr is ' s dancers are also older than the average American dancer. For most of the company's existence, the majority of its members have been over thirty. And they are a vivid ethnic assortment. N o one wears glasses onstage, but otherwise they look a lot like the crowd one might meet at the bank or the grocery store.
