Mark Morris’ luminous, whimsical Moon lands in Brooklyn

Mark Morris Dance Group in Moon

Courtney Lopes and Dallas McMurray in Mark Morris’ Moon

Mark Morris Dance Group in Moon

By Carla Escoda, 29 March 2026

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“striding cautiously, tilting side to side; extending a leg as the torso drooped expressively”

Reviewed at BAM: Howard Gilman Opera House, New York City on 26 March 2026

Moon (Mark Morris)

Mark Morris Dance Group

Isaac Mizrahi, Costume Designer

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

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.