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Words
Premiere
New York City Center – Fall for Dance Festival
Mainstage Theater
Words was commissioned by New York City Center for their 2014 Fall for Dance Festival.
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Details List
Choreography | Mark Morris |
Music | Felix Mendelssohn - Songs without Words – Op. 67, no. 6 – “Serenade”; Op. 38, no. 2 – “Lost Happiness”; Op. 67, no. 5 – “Shepherds Complaint”; Op. 67, no. 4 – “The Spinning Wheel”; Op. 19, no. 6 – “Venetian Barcarole”; Op. 62, no. 3 – “Funeral March”; Op. 62, no. 6 – “Spring Song”; Op. 62, no. 1 – “May Breezes”; Op. 30, no. 2 – “Unrest”; Op. 30, no. 6 – “Second Barcarole” |
Lighting Design | Nick Kolin |
Costume Design | Maile Okamura |
Instrumentation | Violin, Piano |
Number of Dancers | 16 |
Runtime | 24 minutes |
Press Quotes
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"...the dance shows us how much [Morris] can do with a simple, near-pedestrian dance vocabulary and a phenomenally diverse grasp of basic dance musicality."
New York Times -
"...another of Mr. Morris’s beguiling affairs, intriguingly expressing poetry beyond words."
Wall Street Journal -
"frisky and enigmatic."
Washington Post