Lauren Grant

Lauren Grant
LAUREN GRANT, honored with a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award for her decades of outstanding performance with the Mark Morris Dance Group, appeared in nearly 80 of Morris's works from 1996-2020. Some of her most well-known roles include Marie in The Hard Nut, the Nurse in Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare, her featured role in Eleven from Mozart Dances, and her pairing with Morris in From Old Seville. Grant has staged Morris's dances for his company and university students, and has served on faculty at The School at the Mark Morris Dance Center, in higher education, and at schools across the globe. Grant earned her M.F.A. in 2018 and has since contributed articles to The Dance Enthusiast, Dance Education in Practice, Ballet Review, Dance Magazine, and InfiniteBody. She joined Mark Morris Dance Group's Development Department in 2020 and currently acts as Individual Giving Coordinator, Partners.

Works

Violet Cavern
Candleflowerdance
From Old Seville
King Arthur
Mozart Dances
Looky
Orfeo ed Euridice (2007)
Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare
Empire Garden
Socrates
Petrichor
Festival Dance
Platée
Dixit Dominus
Four Saints in Three Acts
Sang-Froid
V
Piper Piece
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Performances & Events

"The Hard Nut," Cal Performances (Berkeley, CA) - December 14-21, 1996
"Platée," Edinburgh International Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland) - August 11-14, 1997
"Platée," The Royal Opera (London, England) - September 22-October 10, 1997
"The Hard Nut," Cal Performances (Berkeley, CA) - December 13-21, 1997
"L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato," New Zealand Festival of the Arts (Wellington, New Zealand) - March 18-22, 1998
"Platée," Berkeley Festival & Exhibition, Cal Performances (Berkeley, CA) - June 6-14, 1998
Festival Dance and Performing Arts Association (Pullman, WA) - October 20, 1998
UW World Series (Seattle, WA) - October 22-24, 1998
Kutztown University Presents! (Kutztown, PA) - October 28, 1998
University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH) - October 30, 1998
Connecticut College (New London, CT) - November 1, 1998
"The Hard Nut," Cal Performances (Berkeley, CA) - December 12-20, 1998
Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall (Sarasota, FL) - February 4, 1999
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center (Tampa Bay, FL) - February 5, 1999
"Mark Morris Dance Group and Yo-Yo Ma," Celebrity Series of Boston (Boston, MA) - February 25-28, 1999
Cal Performances (Berkeley, CA) - March 18-21, 1999
"Mark Morris Dance Group and Yo-Yo Ma," Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY) - March 30, 1999
"Mark Morris Dance Group and Yo-Yo Ma," Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH) - April 3, 1999
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