Mark Morris premieres new work in Brooklyn

By Stephen Raskauskas, 05 March 2012

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Reviewed at BAM: Howard Gilman Opera House, New York City on 1 March 2012

A Choral Fantasy (World Premiere) (Mark Morris)

Four Saints in Three Acts (libretto by Gertrude Stein)

Mark Morris Dance Group

Michelle Yard, St Teresa

Samuel Black, St Ignatius

Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble

Trinity Choir

Stefan Asbury, Conductor

Yulia Van Doren, Soprano

Laura Mercado-Wright, Soprano

Zach Finkelstein, Tenor

Timothy McDevitt, Baritone

Douglas Williams, Bass

Michael Kelly, Baritone

Clarissa Lyons, Soprano

Danya Katok, Soprano

Isaac Mizrahi, Costume Designer

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.

***11

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

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Stephen Raskauskas

Stephen Raskauskas is passionate about the performing arts. As a performer, he has collaborated on productions acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and Huffington Post. He has received numerous fellowships and awards, and holds degrees in music from the University of Chicago and Princeton University.