Selected PERFORMANCE Archive

Intercession (excerpt)

Collaborative Performance produced by Julian Otis

Channeled Dance/Vocals Performance Collaboration with Julian Otis (voice/physical

acting) and Scott Rubin (Violin and Sound Processing) | Premiered Frequency Festival at Constellation |

Chicago, IL 2020

Honoring Diamond Reynolds. Ms. Reynolds witnessed the murder of her husband, Philando Castile, a 32-year-old African American man, by police officer Jeronimo Yanez of the St. Anthony police department in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2016.

Activating Senga Nengudi's Improvisaional Gestures

Ms. Morris Body and Vocal

Anna Martine Whitehead Body and Cello

Alexander Ellsworth Cello and Body

Channeled Dance/Vocals | Performance Activations of Senga Nengudi’s

Sculptures | Depaul Art Museum Chicago, IL 2017

Laying of Hands (Excerpt)

Say something interesting about your business here.

Flight 1 (excerpt)

Channeled collaboration between Margaret M. Morris (Vocal), J'Sun Howard (Dance), Ben Perkins (Surbahar), Brian Murray (Drums and Sound Sampling) | Epiphany Episcopal | Chicago, IL 2009

Take Flight

Popcorn Dream (excerpt)

Created by Margaret M. Morris in collaboration with

performer Szewai Lee
Ruth Page Center For The Arts | Chicago, IL 2007

Watch the perfect human, who happens to be an Asian woman, move and shoot the shit in a room. Listen to the conceiver of the matrix in which she lives, who happens to be a Black woman, narrate the scene.

To Faith and Circumstance Resigned

Created by Margaret M. Morris

in collaboration with dancers.

Featuring Hettie Barnhill and Angela Gronroos

The Dance Center of Columbia College 2005

A form driven quartet that sneaks in momentary intimacies among mathematically derived structures.

Quake (excerpt)

Choreographed by Margaret M. Morris

in collaboration dancers:

Reiko Kawai, Liz Chang, and Robin

The Dance Center of Columbia College 2005

Cracks in reality where empaths meet and transmute pain/gold teeters at the precipice between falling and flying

Full Length 21 minutes

In Tongues (excerpt)

Created by Margaret M. Morris in collaboration with performers:

Jenny Brummer, Angela Gronroos, Keisha Turner and Margaret Morris

Performers sounds captured, processed and arranged by Amber Lewis | Links Hall | Chicago, IL 2006

A tesseract forming her faces from chanters of mystic love/wind bending

Full Length 20 minutes

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