DANCE
Justin Morrison is a dancer, teacher, and performance maker. He is based between San Diego and New York City and remains connected to the Amsterdam and European dance communities.
Notable collaborations in dance include the work of Pavel Zustiak, Sara Shelton Mann, Hope Mohr, AVYK, Leslie Seiters, Christine Bonansea, Katie Duck, the Amsterdam-based MAGPIE Music Dance Company, Wally Cardona, Diego Piñon, and others.
While living in Amsterdam Justin was a frequent guest teacher at the Amsterdam School for the Arts, SNDO: The School for New Dance Development, Rotterdam Dance Academy, and ArtEZ in Arnhem.
In 2014 Justin served as a guest Professor of Dance in the Choreography Department of K-Arts, The Korea National University of Arts (KNUA), in Seoul, South Korea.
From 2016 for 6 years Justin served as Lecturer in Dance at San Diego State University
from the Blog:
VIDEO: In studio with Chris Williams
My brother Gabriel put video together back in August and I’m only now getting to posting it. Click through to Vimeo for a higher resolution…
Sept 5th: Over Laps Art Show
VIDEO by Gabriel Morrison Over Laps Art Show 2008 from Gabriel Morrison on Vimeo. 9-25 UPDATE: A photo from Matt Janecek Thanks to Kate Langley…
Apr 11th & 12th: With Leslie Seiters and Charles Curtis
Justin and Leslie Seiters are performing this weekend at San Diego State with cellist Charles Curtis. We are the final performers in an interdisciplinary evening…
March 3rd: (again) with Leslie Seiters at Basic
In this final experimental installation of "How much of what there is" (a work in progress to be performed in it’s entirety fall 08), Leslie, Ron, Jillian and myself will be performing a re-working of source material in a series of interlocking loops, lasting about 1 hour.
Bottle Night photo update
These images just came in from our performance of Leslie‘s work, last month. Just in time for the next installment of Bottle Night this Monday, 7:30pm @ Bar Basic, Downtown San Diego.
Feb 4th: Performing with Leslie Seiters at Basic
Monday Feb 4th at Basic Urban Kitchen+Bar, Leslie Seiters, Ron Estes, Jillian Chu and myself will be dancing a work from the upcoming "How much of what there is." (look for it in the fall).
Feb 2nd: Dancing with SWARMIUS at Neurosciences Institute
Leslie, Ron and I, along with Niamh Condron, are performing with Joeseph Waters et. al, aka: SWARMIUS on Saturday, Feb. 2nd at the Neurosciences Institute,…
Images from MR Fall Festival
Josephine posted some great shots from her iPhone of Katie, KJ Holmes and I dancing at the Movement Research Fall Festival. Click through for more:
Wendy Perron on our performance at St. Marks
"Katie Duck is the Zorba the Greek of improvisation: earthy, feeling every mode of sensuality, preposterous, irresistible, polymorphously perverse. Watching her dance is like watching…
Movement Research Fall Festival
Katie Duck, KJ Holmes and I are dancing together Friday Nov 30th, as part of the Movement Research Fall Festival at the Danspace Project in…
VIDEO: DANCEonFILM Pre-show
Gabriel and I collaborated in making a piece where images were streamed from various locations (he in Washington, me outside the venue in California), working…
Omi in Action
Toward the end of the residency, photos were pooled and each person left with several hundred images representing our time together. A Trio An Affair…
Last day at Omi
Yesterday was our showing here on the grounds, where a sudden rain and thunderstorm forced us to scrap plans to perform outside in the fields.…
Omi photo update
There is an absence of text and explanation on this blog for the last week of exploration. I hope to make up for it in…
Katie Duck, Bach Suites
VIDEO: Katie Duck, Bach Suites Holland Festival 2004 Excerpt from Six Suites, J.S. Bach
Yvonne Rainer, Trio A
VIDEO: Trio A (1978) – The Mind is a Muscle Part Iby Yvonne Rainer, film by Babette Mangolte
SIGGRAPH 2007
UPDATE: That moving blur is Leslie: Image courtesy of livefromSIGGRAPH.org Opening the Sake: Image courtesy of livefromSIGGRAPH.org Jared at livefromSIGGRAPH.org snapped a shot after the
New Classes
Ensemble Improvisation for Performance Weekly sessions will provide structure and practice in improvisation, and will develop perceptual skills crucial to ensemble performance. Through experimentation, dialogue
Contact Improvisation
I’ll be teaching Contact Improvisation, weekly, at Dance Place San Diego for most of July. Dancers of all ages, experience, shapes and sizes are welcome…
Spring Reverb 2007
UPDATE: Mon, May 21st Karen Hubbard has made available some images taken Friday night at the Kava Lounge. Pictured is musician turned dancer Morgan Sully
MUSIC / DANCE @ STAGE 7 – Sat Apr 21st
Sat Apr 21st – 8pm Download printable flyer music: Jeremy Drake / Tucker Dulin / Chris Heenan dance: Justin Morrison / Leslie Seiters / Amanda…
music/dance @ Art Around Adams SAT Dec 2nd
music: Tucker Dulin (trombone) dance: Patricia Maldonado, Jennifer Oliver, Justin Morrison Performance Times: 6:20, 8:00, 9:40pm Location: The parking lot at Zen Body Mind Center…
music/dance @ Stage 7 – Nov 25th
Update: video & audio 2nd set opening video: [jwplayer player=”1″ mediaid=”1443″] Complete audio from the 2nd set: [jwplayer mediaid=”1449″] Download complete MP3 – 29mb Photos…
music/dance @ Stage 7 – Sept 30th
(click to view flyer) Update: audio recording This event was a huge success. Thanks to everyone who helped get the word out at such short…
Skin
This is a short experimental film, “Emerging”, by Colleen Teresa Bartley, presently living and working in London. It was shot in Brighton as part of…