Bachtrack logo
What's on
All eventsConcertsOperaDanceKids eventsMasterclassesCompetitionsFestivals
Reviews
All reviewsConcert reviewsOpera reviewsDance reviews
Articles
All articlesFeaturesInterviewsOpinionPlaylists
News
Video
Video homeAll videoStreamed eventsConcertsOperaDanceKids eventsMasterclassesPublishers
Site
About usContact usLink to usConditions of useCookiesPrivacy
Young artists
Travel
EventsReviewsArticlesVideo

Mark Morris' Whelm, an intriguing but never irritating mystery

By Rachel Rizzuto, 24 April 2015
Loading, please wait...
See full listing
“Morris remains my favorite choreographer working today”
Reviewed at BAM: Howard Gilman Opera House, New York City on 22 April 2015
Programme
Pacific
Words (Mark Morris)
New Work
Grand Duo
Performers
Mark Morris Dance Group
More Dance reviews
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
More reviews...
Read reviews of
Lou HarrisonMark MorrisMark Morris Dance GroupNew WorkWords
Related articles
Loading image...
Oral history project Voices of British Ballet launches new podcast
Loading image...
Misty Copeland takes her final bow at American Ballet Theatre
Loading image...
A new 2,000 seat open air amphitheatre for NYC’s Lincoln Center
Loading image...
New songs: Jessie Montgomery in conversation
Rachel Rizzuto
Rachel Rizzuto
Rachel Rizzuto received her BFA in dance performance and choreography from the University of Southern Mississippi. She is currently an editor for Dance Teacher magazine, and she is a founding member of modern dance company Mari Meade Dance Collective.