Edward Morgan

Edward Morgan is an American dancer and choreographer. Morgan was a principal dancer at The Joffrey Ballet, and then a director of Joffrey II (1995-1997). He founded the MorganScott Ballet company with Daniel Scott in 1997; it became The EdwardMorgan Ballet in 2007. Career The Joffrey Ballet Morgan was a principal dancer of The Joffrey Ballet for ten years. In 1977, he notably performed "Touch Me", a male solo. The solo was revived in 1989, when the Los Angeles Times wrote that it "showed Morgan to be a dancer of great power and versatility", and that "Morgan's performance gave the borrowed dance-rhetoric superb immediacy". The Chicago Tribune noted Morgan's performance in 'Trinity' in 1990, with choreographer and dancer Edward Stierle "teaming up with unforgettable gusto with the lanky, lightning-quick Edward Morgan." Morgan was a director of the Joffrey II from 1995-1997. Dance education for children In 1998, Morgan founded the Joffrey Ballet School Jazz Program, offering children a professional training in dance. In 2000, Morgan and Daniel Scott set up a program to teach ballet to children in the Bronx district of New York.