Community remembers Christopher Morrison | Dance [Video]

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Rochester lost a beloved dancer, choreographer, and teacher this past weekend. After months of battling pancreatic cancer, Christopher Morrison died in New York City on Saturday. News of his death sent waves of grief through the Rochester community, which remembers the Jamaican-born artist for his time on Rochester stages with Garth Fagan Dance, Borinquen Dance Theater, and BIODANCE, and as a teacher at the Hochstein School.

Bill Ferguson, executive artistic liaison with Garth Fagan Dance, was often partnered in duets with Morrison, whom he had met when Morrison joined the company in 1990. “Chris was a real force because of his facility and presence on stage,” he says. “He really made a splash. There are many times when I stopped and looked at Chris and thought, ‘I wish …