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This dance was created under the auspices of the Mark Morris Dance Group New Works Fund, sponsored by Philip Morris Companies, Inc. Additional support provided by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

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V photo by Sharen Bradford
V photo by Sharen Bradford

V photo by Sharen Bradford

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Choreography Mark Morris
Music Robert Schumann - Quintet in E Flat Major for Piano and Strings, Op. 44—Allegro brillante; In modo d’una Maria. Un poco largamente – Agitato; Scherzo molto vivace; Allegro, ma non troppo
Lighting Design Michael Chybowski
Costume Design Martin Pakledinaz
Instrumentation 2 violins, viola, cello, piano
Number of Dancers 14
Runtime 33 minutes

Press Quotes

  • "heavenly"
    The Guardian
  • "Morris shows the Balanchine gift to 'make the music visible'...never exploiting or caricaturing."
    San Francisco Classical Voice
  • "The craft, not to mention the artistry, is overwhelming. V is the most organic of masterpieces."
    Voice of Dance
  • "life-affirming"
    New York Times
  • "a masterpiece of loveliness."
    Times Union

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Published in The New York Times

Transcending Form in the Name of Humanity

Anna Kisselgoff for The New York Times
V is a life-affirming new dance by Mark Morris, not only one of his best pieces in many years but also one of the few great works that modern dance has produced in a decade.
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Published in boston.com

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 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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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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