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Mark Morris Dance Group in "Dancing Honeymoon." Dressed in all yellow, dancers are in pairs, holding hands and leaning away from one another with their arms extended out. Two of the dancers are sitting and leaning back on black foldable chairs.

Dancing Honeymoon

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Mark Morris Dance Group in "Dancing Honeymoon." Dressed in all yellow, dancers are in pairs, holding hands and leaning away from one another with their arms extended out. Two of the dancers are sitting and leaning back on black foldable chairs.

Dancing Honeymoon

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Mark Morris Dance Group in "Dancing Honeymoon." Dressed in all yellow, dancers are in pairs, holding hands and leaning away from one another with their arms extended out. Two of the dancers are sitting and leaning back on black foldable chairs.
Dancing Honeymoon Photo by Christopher Duggan

Dancing Honeymoon Photo by Christopher Duggan

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Choreography Mark Morris
Music Ethan Iverson - “Limehouse Blues”, “You Were Meant for Me”, “Do Do Do”, “Someone to Watch Over Me”, “A Cup of Coffee, A Sandwich, and You”, “Wild Thyme”, “Experiment”, “Dancing Honeymoon”, “And Her Mother Came Too”, “Fancy Our Meeting”, “Who”, “Two Little Bluebirds”, “Goodnight, Vienna”, “It’s Not You”, “There’s Always Tomorrow”
Costume Design Elizabeth Kurtzman
Lighting Design Michael Chybowski
Instrumentation soprano, piano, violin, percussion
Number of Dancers 7
Runtime 18 minutes

Press Quotes

  • "Morris creates a gently ribald frolic: Couples form and re-form depending merely on who’s nearby, and when necessary, threesomes manage just beautifully. "
    The Boston Globe
  • "This is one of the few dances in the vast lexicon of folding-chair pieces that use chairs in ways that still look fresh. "
    Times Union
  • "...a wild romp through classic songs, dance moves, and narratives. "
    The Rogovoy Report
  • "This is vintage Morris and everybody, including the audience, has the time of their lives."
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Published in The Rogovoy Report

Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at Jacob’s Pillow

The first and newest work on the program, Morris’s 2002 Resurrection is a strong introduction to MMDG if only because it gives the dancers of the company leave to do what makes them truly remarkable: relax, have fun, and move together as if they were one being. Sometimes synchronized, sometimes in a canon of motion, their timing is always delectably spot-on, and their awareness of each other hypersensitive. The score, Richard Rodgers’ “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue”, plays up the goofier sections, such as a pantomimed murder, and the dancers appear to revel in the entertaining lightheartedness of the work. - See more at: http://rogovoyreport.com/2011/08/27/mark-morris-jacobs-pillow-review-anna-rogovoy/#sthash.uRD1bIvr.dpuf
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Dance Review: Three decades of dancing on air with Mark Morris

We blinked, and suddenly the Mark Morris Dance Group is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Another blink, and it’s the last week of this year’s Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, during which Morris’s jolly troupe is performing four of the master choreographer’s works. The giddy program, too, flashes by: Time really does seem to fly when you’re having fun.
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Published in timesunion.com

Mark Morris Dance Group @ Jacob’s Pillow

The company’s anniversary program at the Pillow this week explodes with a joy and unabashed beauty rarely seen in contemporary dance these days. There’s something innocent about pieces like “Resurrection,” from 2002, and “Dancing Honeymoon,” from 1998, a purity and playfulness despite—but really because of—Morris’ remarkable artfulness. What you feel watching a Morris dance is a delighted satisfaction in the fact that everyone always ends up exactly where they should be at just the right moment, time after time. It’s a kind of magic, and Morris is the magician who makes it all seem simple.
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Published in Washington Classical Review

Critic’s Choice

For inventiveness of motion married to the gestures of music, few choreographers are as adroit and unpredictable as Mark Morris. For the past decade Mark Morris Dance Group has regularly brought some of its dance programs to the George Mason University Center of the Arts.
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