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Grand Duo
Premiere
Grand Duo
University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center
Media Gallery
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Details List
Choreography | Mark Morris |
Music | Lou Harrison - Grand Duo for Violin and Piano |
Costume Design | Susan Ruddie |
Lighting Design | Michael Chybowski |
Instrumentation | violin, piano |
Number of Dancers | 14 |
Runtime | 25 minutes |
Details
Grand Duo is composed of four movements: Prelude, Stampede, A Round, Polka.
Polka, the fourth section, was choreographed first and premiered in 1992.
Press Quotes
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"...one of the most viscerally charged passages in the annuals of modern dance."
Boston Globe -
"...truly one of the masterpieces of the late 20th Century."
The Guardian -
"A fierce energy eats up space in a frenzied momentum which culminates in a transcendent moment of power. "
The Times (U.K.) -
"It's both savage and orderly, comic and bleak, poignant and exciting."
New York Times