The dance is not going away party: Mark Morris’ new Northwest

Mark Morris Dance Group in his Northwest

Mark Morris Dance Group in Going Away Party

Mark Morris Dance Group in The Argument

Dallas McMurray in Ten Suggestions

Mark Morris Dance Group in Northwest

Por Carla Escoda, 24 julio 2025

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“tucking the other behind their back, fans aflutter, before hopping like a bird on the other foot”

Crítica hecha desde Joyce Theater, Nueva York el 22 julio 2025

Northwest (Mark Morris)

Ten Suggestions (Mark Morris)

The Argument (Mark Morris)

Going Away Party (Mark Morris)

Mark Morris Dance Group

Billy Smith, Bailarín

Dallas McMurray, Bailarín

Colin Fowler, Dirección

Andrew Janss, Violonchelo

Mark Morris’ luminous, whimsical Moon lands in Brooklyn

Carla Escoda, 26th March

Commissioned by Washington DC's Kennedy Center in the before-times, Mark Morris' Moon lands more ominously today than it surely did when it was conceived. But it still radiates joy.

*****

Dancers come and go, The Hard Nut fresh as ever

Carla Escoda, 12th December

It's 33 years since its premiere in Brussels, and in its eighth season in New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, this irreverent American classic is still firing on all cylinders.

*****

Mark Morris’ dance-intensive Orfeo ed Euridice returns to the Met

Susan Stempleski, 16th May

The latest revival of the company’s 2007 stylish production of Gluck’s operatic take on the Orpheus myth is enlivened with superb singing and dancing.

*****

Kansas City Ballet: Barminess in Bliss Point

Hilary Stroh, 12th May

Alexander Ekman's Cacti is the zany highlight of the evening!

*****

Visions of Classical (Re)Vision in San Francisco

Jaime Robles, 11th February

“Your love affair with ballet, your time with ballet, is short,” explains Welsh about his ballet Bespoke, “Eventually you lay down, and dance keeps moving. It’s a bittersweet thing.”

****1

At the Met, a revival of Orfeo ed Euridice

Edward Sava-Segal, 4th November

Jamie Barton's rich, mellifluous mezzo is ideal for singing Orfeo.

****1

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Carla Escoda

Born in the Philippines, Carla trained as a ballet and modern dancer with the Alice Reyes Dance Company in Manila. She has lived and worked in Asia and the U.S. and has written about the arts for Bachtrack, KQED (the northern California public media broadcaster), Dance International, dance journal/hk, the Huffington Post, Dance Europe and ballettothepeople.