Mark Morris, Carmen Maria Machado and ‘Rocky and Bullwinkle’

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Kurt Andersen talks with the choreographer Mark Morris about how music has always been central to his work. The author Carmen Maria Machado reveals how an episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” had the unlikely effect of helping her write her new book about domestic abuse. And how the cartoon "Rocky and Bullwinkle" was strangely prescient about the Cold War.

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0:00.0	from PRX.
0:06.0	Today on Studio 360.
0:10.1	If it can be live, it must be.
0:14.1	Why Mark Morris wishes that pretty much all dance performances had live musicians.
0:19.5	Well, I don't want to watch dead dancers either, and I don't want a dead audience.
0:23.0	Although I've been in situations sometimes where the orchestra was so terrible,
0:26.3	I wish they'd just put on a record.
0:28.7	The famous choreographer Mark Morris on dance, music, and his new memoir.
0:34.3	Plus, finding resonance in unexpected places.
0:38.3	This episode started playing, and then I stopped what I was doing,
0:42.3	and I couldn't look away and I couldn't do anything else.
0:45.3	How the writer Carmen Maria Machado found surprisingly personal meaning in Star Trek.
0:51.3	And I kept thinking, like, it's just so on the nose, like, I was working on this memoir. This episode just happens to be in the Trek. And I kept thinking, like, it's just so on the nose. Like, as I'm working on this memoir, this episode just happens to, like, be in the queue.
0:58.2	That and more is ahead on Studio 360, right after this.
1:06.4	This is Studio 360.
1:10.3	I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:13.6	This first level of garden.
1:14.6	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
1:16.6	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
1:18.6	Very well done.
1:19.6	Editing is all about timing.
1:20.6	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
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