Mark Morris / Silk Road ensemble: Layla and Majnun

Par Jaime Robles, 02 octobre 2016

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“All of the company’s dancers were brilliant, and beyond criticism”

Critique faite à UC Berkeley, Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, le 30 septembre 2016

Layla and Majnun (Mark Morris)

Mark Morris Dance Group

Mark Morris, Mise en scène

Howard Hodgkin, Décors, Costumes

James F Ingalls, Lumières

Alim Qasimov, Voix

Fargana Qasimova, Voix

Silk Road Ensemble

Stacy Martorana, Danse

Domingo Estrada, Danse

Lesley Garrison, Danse

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.

*****

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

Carla Escoda, 22nd July

Mark Morris Dance Group’s second week at the Joyce Theater in New York unveiled a world premiere in a mixed bill that represented a narrow range of Morris’ dazzling creativity.

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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.”

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Jaime Robles

Jaime Robles has previously written in the San Francisco Bay Area, including for the San Francisco Classical Voice. Also a poet, she has written song lyrics and librettos for several one-act operas, including Inferno (music by Peter Josheff), staged in 2009 by San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and Vladimir in Butterfly Country (music by Anne Callaway), staged in 2012.

A fiery Layla and Majnun première by the Silk Road Ensemble and Mark Morris Dance Group