A leisurely lunch with "Fandango" author Sandy Hill

Mark Morris breezes into Sandy Hill's Los Olivos ranch house, necklaces dangling, a shawl draped loosely about his shoulders and dance company directors Nancy Umanoff and Lauren Cherubini in tow. Once dubbed "our Mozart of modern dance" by the Washington Post, Morris is the first speaker in a series of Sunday lunch-salons at Hill's ranch and Oak Savanna Vineyard. No matter that it's Wednesday--plans have a way of bending to Morris' schedule; he's in town for a midweek performance in Santa Barbara.

By Barbara Thornburg

July 6, 2008