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Sunday December 4, 2022

Published in LA Times

Best classical of 2022: Gustavo, Mark Morris and the CD discovery of the year

Here we go again. Last year at this time, we looked back at our buoyancy, gingerly bouncing back from COVID-19. But 2022 became, with new surges, a boomerang year. Somehow, though, the performing arts are getting through it.
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Thursday December 1, 2022

Published in Queer Forty

Mark Morris’ queer Nutcracker to delight Detroit

The Hard Nut is a deconstruction of the beloved Holiday favorite, The Nutcracker, and now Detroit Opera brings Mark Morris’ contemporary queer American Ballet to the stage inn time for Christmas.
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Saturday October 29, 2022

Published in BroadwayWorld

Review: THE LOOK OF LOVE at Eisenhower Theater

Mark Morris choreographs for an audience’s ears as well as its eyes. The performances are always as much about his music choice as about the movement. No exception, the charming Look of Love at the Kennedy Center through October 29.
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Friday October 28, 2022

Published in MD Theatre Guide

Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group: ‘The Look of Love’ at the Kennedy Center

Fun! Fun! Fun! (if only for a too-brief hour) best describes the opening night at the Kennedy Center where “The Look of Love,” (a Kennedy Center co-commission) made its East Coast debut. The hour-long show features music by Burt Bacharach, the Grammy-winning songwriter of the 1950s, 60s and ’70s.
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Thursday October 27, 2022

Published in The Washington Post

Mark Morris’s tribute to Burt Bacharach is what the world needs now

Nothing is as it seems in this brilliant journey performed by Mark Morris Dance Group at the Kennedy Center. There is no emotional glop in Mark Morris’s witty, wounding and brilliant new dance production, “The Look of Love.”
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Wednesday October 26, 2022

Published in Fjord

The Look of Love: Mark Morris’ evening of dance to Burt Bacharach

A breath of fresh, brilliant, joyous—and much needed—air blew into BroadStage on Thursday for the world premiere of Mark Morris’ “The Look of Love.” Co-commissioned by a national consortium of arts presenters, including BroadStage, the work is set to music from the vast cannon of multi-Grammy-award winning pop composer and songwriter, 94-year old Burt Bacharach, with lyrics by his frequent collaborator, Hal David, who died in 2012.
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Thursday October 20, 2022

Published in The Washington Post

Dancemaker Mark Morris’s homage to Burt Bacharach was no light lift

“It’s never quite what you think,” the choreographer says of the pop star’s music, which is featured in Morris’s “The Look of Love,” coming to the Kennedy Center.
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Friday October 14, 2022

Published in The New York Times

Yes, Burt Bacharach Wrote That. And You Can Dance to It.

Mark Morris’s The Look of Love is set to Bacharach songs. “People are always saying, ‘Oh my God, he wrote that?’ That’s why I’m doing it,” Morris said.
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