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Spring, Spring, Spring - Berkeley 2014
Spring, Spring, Spring - Berkeley 2014
Spring, Spring, Spring - Berkeley 2014
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Spring, Spring, Spring - Berkeley 2014

Spring, Spring, Spring - Berkeley 2014

Spring, Spring, Spring - Berkeley 2014

Spring, Spring, Spring - Berkeley 2014

Spring, Spring, Spring - Berkeley 2014

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Choreography Mark Morris
Music The Bad Plus - Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
Costume Design Elizabeth Kurtzman
Lighting Design Philip Watson
Instrumentation The Bad Plus: Ethan Iverson, piano; Reid Anderson, bass; David King, percussion
Number of Dancers 14
Runtime 37 minutes

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The Bad Plus: Ethan Iverson, piano; Reid Anderson, bass; David King, percussion

Press Quotes

  • "...what really matters is Morris' response to the arrangement, and he succumbs to its rhythmic vitality with a string of merry, even ebullient numbers. Everyone sports fruity wreaths, men are shirtless, women wear Elizabeth Kurtzman's filmy white dresses."
  • "In Morris' world of genders defined, united, blended and separated, everyone gets to be strong and soft, all the dancers are ringed by a halo of flowers, and the multifariousness of life is life."

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What Does it Take to Dance for Mark Morris?

Two of Morris' most distinctive veteran dancers took time recently to discuss both the repertory and the particular thrills and challenges of dancing for the renowned choreographer. Between them, Lauren Grant and Michelle Yard have logged 35 years of experience with his endlessly diverse, musically sophisticated work.
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Published in The Wall Street Journal

Mark Morris Dance Group at BAM Review

With 35 years of impressive and variously poetic dance-making behind him, Mr. Morris appears in no way ready to confine himself to the tried and true. Whatever title he gives his next dance, it is likely to be provocative and may turn another new corner.
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Published in The New York Times

Mark Morris Dance Group at Brooklyn Academy of Music

If you try to analyze the way the choreographer Mark Morris fits dance to music, you quickly become aware of something akin to a scientific operation of intense intricacy: The connection of movement phrases and motifs to each score is extraordinarily complex in both structure and detail — and, often, brilliantly satisfying. But when you stand back and simply watch the sheer imagination with which Mr. Morris decides what kind of drama he’s marrying to music that, in most cases, was written long ago with very different ideas in mind, then he starts to look eccentric, a peculiar and daring oddball, an engaging but naughty maverick.
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Published in The New Yorker

Mark Morris’s Jazz Spring

Morris has put a lot of different things into this new, more open sonic territory. There are tributes to spring, notably the title of the piece, “Spring, Spring, Spring.” (It’s the name of a song in “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.”) The dancers all wear flower garlands in their hair, and the men wear jeans in hotly vernal pink, blue, orange, yellow, and so on, with bare chests. Four of these guys stick together and zoom around wagging their rear ends naughtily.
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Published in Broadway World

BWW Reviews: Mark Morris Dance Group Return to BAM

Mark Morris Dance Group was a welcome return to Brooklyn. In the contemporary dance scene, often movement comes first, and music is fit into the pre-arranged movement which can leave a piece feeling a bit empty. The genius of Morris as a choreographer doesn't come from large, loud movement, but from the simple elegance of allowing the music to breathe life into the movement.
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