Silhouettes
Premiere
Maximum Dance Company - Coconut Grove Playhouse
Company Premiere
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
Mark Morris Dance Group - Ted Shawn Theatre
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Details List
| Choreography | Mark Morris |
| Music | Richard Cumming - Silhouettes -Five Pieces for Piano (1993) |
| Lighting Design | Michael Chybowski |
| Instrumentation | piano |
| Number of Dancers | 2 |
| Runtime | 10 minutes |
Details
Silhouettes was originally choreographed for Maximum Dance Company, a troupe founded in 1996 by Yanis Pikieris and San Francisco Ballet principal dancers David Palmer.
Press Quotes
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"Shadows, playmates, stalkers, twins. The music's tone is light, and so is the dancing's, but again, that twang of heartache...they are so close to being one."
Tulsa Dances -
"...they perform sparkling ballet steps, twisting and turning in the air with luxurious resilience."
New York Times -
"They stalk, shadow and mirror each other to both comical and eerie effect - Is this one man or two? Two halves or a whole? - before collapsing to the floor, close, but separate. A postscript shudder lends a last somber note."
Sarasota Arts