The Hard Nut... or “How I Beat the Holiday Blues”

By Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 14 December 2015

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“Morris’ secret is that whatever else he is doing, he never forgets the music”

Reviewed at BAM: Howard Gilman Opera House, New York City on 13 December 2015

The Hard Nut (Mark Morris)

Mark Morris Dance Group

Colin Fowler, Conductor

Jenn Weddel, Dancer

June Omura, Dancer

Lauren Grant, Dancer

Kraig Patterson, Dancer

Mark Morris, Dancer

John Heginbotham, Dancer

Aaron Loux, Dancer

Billy Smith, Dancer

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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.

*****

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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.

*****

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Hilary Stroh, 12th May

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

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Visions of Classical (Re)Vision in San Francisco

Jaime Robles, 11th February

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****1

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Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn

Andrew is currently a professional chef in New York City but he began life as a ballet dancer with the Hartford and Ohio Ballet companies. His writing also appears on the Huffington Post Blog and BroadwayWorld.com. His latest work, nominated for a James Beard Award, is “Return to the Rivers”, a Himalayan cookbook.