Press Room
Friday March 23, 2018
"Layla and Majnun": An Azerbaijani dance opera for the ages
Thursday February 01, 2018
On the Rise: Sarah Haarmann
Thursday February 01, 2018
Mark Morris: Student and Teacher
Monday December 25, 2017
Who wowed our critics in 2017? Find our in the Times arts awards
Monday December 18, 2017
The top 10 dance shows of 2017
Wednesday December 06, 2017
Most Beatles-Related Art Sucks, but Mark Morris Dance Group'a Pepperland Is Not Like Most Beatles-Related Art
One look at the clips online, and I was hooked. This is not some jukebox revue, with leotarded coryphées swanning around like plasticene porters in "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," pantomiming shovel work for "Fixing a Hole," and impersonating roosters on "Good Morning, Good Morning" while wearing kooky silk military uniforms against a tie-dye backdrop. Far out, man.
Monday October 30, 2017
The Unslaked Fires of Love
Monday October 30, 2017
Mark Morris gets to the heart of the story of Layla and Majnun at the White Light Festival, New York
The immediate antecedent to Mark Morris’s Layla and Majnun may date back only a century, to the first Azerbaijani opera, but the story has pervaded the Islamic world, from India to Morocco, for over a thousand years — as folktale, epic poem, miniature painting and classical dance. By idiosyncratic means, the American choreographer confirms why this tragic romance has long mattered: the love it describes is essential and vast.
★★★★★
Friday June 30, 2017
Review: Mark Morris Dance Group perfect at Tanglewood
Friday June 30, 2017
Dancing with Lou Harrison
Friday June 30, 2017
Mark Morris and Lou Harrison, a Large-Spirited Partnership
Tuesday June 27, 2017
The Mark Morris Dance Group Presents Lou 100: In Honor of the Divine Mr. Harrison At Tanglewood
Tuesday May 30, 2017
Pepperland at the Royal Court, Liverpool - a seamless synthesis
Monday May 29, 2017
Pepperland, Royal Court, Liverpool, review: It refuses to be nostalgic romp
Sunday May 28, 2017
Mark Morris: Pepperland review - Beatles with a touch of Broadway shuffle
Saturday May 27, 2017
Dance review: Pepperland at Royal Court, Liverpool
Friday May 26, 2017
Review: Pepperland at Royal Court Liverpool
Friday May 26, 2017
A brilliant homage to one of the great rock albums - Pepperland, Royal Court Liverpool, review
Friday May 26, 2017
Pepperland review – Mark Morris's Lonely Hearts Club dancers are a dream
Wednesday May 10, 2017
Dance tributes to Leonard Cohen and Beatles' Sgt. Pepper coming to Toronto
Monday March 20, 2017
Embodying Music
Monday March 20, 2017
Operas That Dance
Monday March 20, 2017
Song and Dance Man
Sunday March 19, 2017
Two Operas, One Visionary: Mark Morris at BAM
Wednesday March 15, 2017
Dido Returns - the Mark Morris Dance Group at BAM
Tuesday February 21, 2017
Critic's Choice
Monday February 06, 2017
Stephanie Blythe Sings Dido
Tuesday December 13, 2016
The Hard Nut, BAM, New York — ‘Funny, cynical and wise’
Tuesday December 13, 2016
It’s a Blizzard Onstage. Here’s All the Dirt.
Monday December 12, 2016
The Genius of "The Hard Nut"
Sunday December 11, 2016
Mark Morris Dance Group at BAM: Twenty-Five Years of The Hard Nut
Wednesday December 07, 2016
The best dance of 2016: Farewell to a beloved fest and why Hubbard Street is Underappreciated
Saturday November 19, 2016
South of the border: The White Light Festival spotlighted South India this year
Tuesday November 01, 2016
'Sounds of India' Review: Tradition and Its Offshoots
Tuesday November 01, 2016
A New Incarnation of Mark Morris's Singular Dance
Monday October 31, 2016
Mark Morris Dance Group, White Light Festival, New York
Sunday October 30, 2016
Mark Morris Is a Citizen of the World at the White Light Festival
Friday October 28, 2016
10 Things to Do Now in NYC
Monday October 24, 2016
Love, Ecstasy, Infinity: Mark Morris's 'Layla and Majnun'
The Mark Morris Dance Group and the musicians of the Silk Road Ensemble, come to the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center this week with Layla and Majnun.
Monday October 03, 2016
Mark Morris dancers, Silk Road Ensemble join in classic love story
Monday October 03, 2016
Mark Morris and Silk Road Delight with Layla and Majnun
Monday October 03, 2016
"Layla and Majnun" Mark Morris Dance Company Cal Performances Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley
Monday October 03, 2016
Mark Morris’ ‘Layla and Majnun’ premiere an excess of riches
Sunday October 02, 2016
A fiery Layla and Majnun première by the Silk Road Ensemble and Mark Morris Dance Group
Sunday October 02, 2016
Review: From Mark Morris, a Tale of Love Refracted and Multiplied
Sunday October 02, 2016
Mark Morris Dance Group – Layla and Majnun – San Francisco
Saturday October 01, 2016
Morris premiere an excess of riches
Saturday October 01, 2016
Mark Morris and Silk Road Ensemble’s collaboration
Thursday September 15, 2016
Crazy Love: Cal Performances Brings Arabia’s Iconic Love Story to the West
Wednesday September 14, 2016
Welcome Back, Performing Arts Season
Friday September 09, 2016
At the Silk Road Bazaar, Layla and Majnun Has Pride of Place
Wednesday September 07, 2016
Escape the Distractions and See these Ten Dance Events
Wednesday August 31, 2016
Performances Onstage This Fall
Wednesday August 31, 2016
Wednesday August 31, 2016
Coming up this fall — arts, authors, visual expression
Tuesday August 30, 2016
Mark Morris Dance Group – Mozart Dances: Eleven, Double, Twenty-seven
Monday August 29, 2016
More Picks in Dance
Monday August 29, 2016
Morning Glories: Mark Morris
Sunday August 28, 2016
Fall arts preview
Sunday August 28, 2016
Berkeley Forum announces fall 2016 speaker lineup
Thursday June 15, 2017
Mark Morris Presents Lou 100: In Honor of the Divine Mr. Harrison, an entire program devoted to Lou Harrison at Tanglewood
Friday March 31, 2017
Brooklyn's Judith R. Fishman to Become Mark Morris Dance Group's Chairman of the Board
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(Brooklyn, NY) – The Mark Morris Dance Group is pleased to announce that Judith R. Fishman has been elected Chairman of the Board beginning April 1. David Resnicow, Board Chairman (2009-2017) will become Vice Chair, to serve alongside existing Vice Chairman Mark Selinger. |
Thursday February 23, 2017
The Mark Morris Dance Group Launches Unique Dance Accompaniment Training Program in Partnership with Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU
Thursday September 01, 2016
Layla and Majnun – A Classic Persian Love Story - Mark Morris’s Newest Evening Length Work World Premiere -- September 30 at Cal Performances, Berkeley, CA
“No choreographer alive has built up a stronger reputation for musicality than Mark Morris” The New York Times
Morris Choreography Set to a Chamber Arrangement Performed by the Silk Road Ensemble with Stage and Costume Design from Painter Howard Hodgkin, Lighting by James F. Ingalls
Ten National and International Performing Arts Institutions Combine Forces to Support Mark Morris’s Eighth Evening Length Work
Layla and Majnun Will Tour the US and Abroad
Thursday August 18, 2016
The Mark Morris Dance Group Celebrates 15 Years of the Mark Morris Dance Center at its Annual Open House
Thursday September 10, 2015
Mark Morris Dance Group Hosts Its Annual Free Open House at the Dance Center
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 9:30AM - 5PM
Tuesday January 20, 2015
L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato on THIRTEEN's Great Performances
Saturday December 28, 2013
ESSAY: Mark Morris' Dido and Aeneas by Dr. Sophia Preston
An essay by Sophia Preston
Just a few minutes into Mark Morris’s 1989 dance to Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas it is clear that at least some of the movement “represents” the words of the libretto. Whether by looking apt (shaking hands in the air to “shake”), or through repetition (hands held out in an Indian dance mudra every time the word “fate” is heard), associations build up between gestures and words, creating a lexicon of gestural signs. This “re-presentation” of the libretto through gestures might be viewed as a redundant doubling of the words, but my contention is that, on the contrary, Morris exploits the transparency of this strategy to sophisticated and moving effect.
Friday January 27, 2012
Two Reasons the Patient is Still Kicking
Alastair Macaulay for The New York Times
Every so often someone declares ballet dead. The theater critic Kenneth Tynan even did so in the 1960s, a decade that many of us assume must have been a golden age. (The choreographer Frederick Ashton said, “It’s having the biggest funeral in history.”) In 2010 it was the turn of Jennifer Homans, the dance critic of The New Republic, in the epilogue of her ballet history, “Apollo’s Angels.” In 1993 — I’d better come clean — it was me.
Friday May 14, 2010
A Mark Morris dance you must not miss
"Gloria" is only one of three Morris works coming to Seattle’s Paramount Theater May 21-23; but it is the one which you must see, whether you are a dance fan, a baroque music buff, a theater maven, or simply a person who has sometimes felt moving in the soul the feeling expressed by Dylan Thomas’s immortally longing Polly Garter in Under Milk Wood: “Oh, isn’t life a terrible thing, thank God?”
Friday November 24, 1995
ESSAY: Roger Downey on Dido and Aeneas
All it took to condemn one of the greatest operas ever written to three centuries in shadows were a bare dozen words—“Perform'd at Mr. Josias Priest's Boarding-School at Chelsey. By Young Gentlewomen.”
And the worst of it? It wasn’t even true.
In fact Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas was probably written for performance before the King and Queen of England. But those words, at the head of the libretto published in 1689, have cast such a pall of dainty respectability, of amateur night shenanigans over the work that most listeners have neglected the evidence of their own ears. Dido has been mostly revived professionally when a mezzo-soprano combining musical insight with box-office clout—a Kirsten Flagstad, a Josephine Baker—has insisted on performing it. Paradoxically, Mark Morris's danced version of the piece has probably done more to establish Dido in the repertory than those artists did.
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