| home | forum | features | reviews | interviews | events | best-of | links | gallery | whoweare |
| home | forum | features | reviews | interviews | events | best-of | links | gallery | whoweare |
 UBBFriend: Email This Page to Someone! |
 criticaldance.com ballet and modern dance forum
 Modern Dance
 Mark Morris
|
| next newest topic | next oldest topic |
| Author | Topic: Mark Morris |
|
grace Member |
posted June 20, 2000 09:07
  
"Nothing minor about Morris " "The next stop in choreographer Mark Morris's bid for world domination is ENO. Debra Craine met him": "The Royal Ballet hasn't seduced him yet (it did try) IP: Logged |
|
mairead Member |
posted June 21, 2000 13:31
Grace, Thanks for the Morris article. I think he is a most fascinating choreographer who has the wonderful ability to be both funy and yet deeply serious at the same time. I feel one never really knows what he will come up with next!! I wonder if you could help me with the name of a dance he made. I can't find it and have only seen it on film once. It is a duet for 3 men set to a country and Western song. The actions follow the words. Typically it is funny in movement material, I remember thinking it was very tongue in cheek regarding Graham, but in subject it was a serious comment about the waste of life in the Vietnam war. I would love to see this dance again as I remember it having a deep effect on me, I felt very guilty for laughing at it. Mairead IP: Logged |
|
grace Member |
posted June 21, 2000 18:25
mairead, i'm afraid i personally don't have a clue...but i hope someone else will... i like what i've seen from morris too. this piece you describe sounds fascinating (one question though: you say it's a duet, but there's 3 of them? what do you mean there?? "confused smiley" goes in HERE!)... morris' company has only been to australia once, quite a few years ago, i believe they did 'l'allegro '-which is the piece i'd most like to see- but adelaide festival, where it happened, is an expensive journey from perth where i live, so i wasn't there... i think stuart is a bit of a morris fan, and the work you describe sounds right up his alley...so maybe in a few days when he gets back to london from san francisco, he might be able to help... IP: Logged |
|
mairead Member |
posted June 21, 2000 23:27
Grace, sorry I meant a trio, hope someone can put me out of my misery!! Mairead IP: Logged |
|
Stuart Sweeney Administrator |
posted June 24, 2000 06:44
Mark Morris talks to John Percival about the forthcoming season at London's Coliseum with 'Four Saints in Three Acts', 'L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato', 'Dido and Aneas' and his choreography for the opera 'Nixon in China'.
IP: Logged |
|
Stuart Sweeney Administrator |
posted June 30, 2000 01:07
The Mark Morris Dance Group is now in residence at the Coliseum, and appears first in an intriguing double Bill - Four Saints in Three Acts, by Virgil Thomson, and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. The former seems to be a quirky piece that has disappointed some and delighted others. Here is a selection of the initial reviews, including one by Lynette Halewood on ballet.co.uk. http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/00/06/30/timartdan02001.html http://www.danze.co.uk/dcforum/happening/785.html# [This message has been edited by Stuart Sweeney (edited June 30, 2000).] IP: Logged |
|
Stuart Sweeney Administrator |
posted June 30, 2000 15:53
Here's a neat idea: 'As Mark Morris fuses opera and ballet in a new double bill, The Independent's dance and opera critics compare notes.' http://www.independent.co.uk/enjoyment [This message has been edited by Stuart Sweeney (edited July 06, 2000).] IP: Logged |
|
Stuart Sweeney Administrator |
posted July 03, 2000 01:23
Jann Parry in the Observer adds her comments on the Mark Morris Dance Company, the main talking point in London's dance world now that the Kirov has ended the first part of its Summer season here. Parry also discusses the RB New works programme. http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,338681,00.html IP: Logged |
|
Stuart Sweeney Administrator |
posted July 04, 2000 03:38
 The Coliseum - London's largest theatre and, with Sadler's Wells, the best for large scale dance. The designers of this 100 (?) year old venue clearly knew a thing or two about sightlines. Debra Craine reviews the Mark Morris Dance Group, in 'L'Allegro etc.'. It is one of the strongest reviews for a dance work that I have ever read. I'm off to the Coliseum to see it to-morrow night and the double bill, reviewed above, on Saturday. Lucky me! http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/00/07/04/timartdan01001.html [This message has been edited by Stuart Sweeney (edited July 04, 2000).] IP: Logged |
|
Azlan Administrator |
posted July 04, 2000 11:56
I had the opportunity to see Morris' 'L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato' in Berkeley, CA, earlier this year. If anyone is interested, there is at least one review of that show, along with some thoughts by me, in the following thread: http://www.criticaldance.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000070.html IP: Logged |
|
Azlan Administrator |
posted July 05, 2000 01:33
 A photo from "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato" Photo: Leslie E. Spatt IP: Logged |
|
Stuart Sweeney Administrator |
posted July 05, 2000 16:10
Nadine Meisner reviews Morris' astonishingly beautiful 'L' Allegro…', which I saw this evening. Divine….. http://www.independent.co.uk/enjoyment/ [This message has been edited by Stuart Sweeney (edited July 06, 2000).] IP: Logged |
|
Stuart Sweeney Administrator |
posted July 06, 2000 13:52
 A photo of Tina Fehlandt, who I saw dancing in the Company on their visit to London in 1985 and is now their Rehearsal Director. She also worked on the London performances of SFB's 'Sandpaper Ballet'. I thought that one of our number at least would enjoy this photo. IP: Logged |
|
Maggie Moderator |
posted July 06, 2000 14:20
which one is Tina? IP: Logged |
|
Azlan Administrator |
posted July 06, 2000 18:13
Maggie, maggie... IP: Logged |
|
grace Member |
posted July 06, 2000 20:07
no, that's Moggie, Moggie..... now there are at least TWO of us, azlan.....probably THREE! great photo - hard to get a cat to look straight at the camera, like that - the photographer from my local paper KNOWS that, NOW - after spending an hour in my kitchen last week, trying in vain to get 4 kittens (and me) all to look at the camera at the same time. i TOLD him it wouldn't work.....but he insisted on trying! IP: Logged |
|
shag Member |
posted July 08, 2000 08:58
Tina came down to Miami when Maximum performed Mark's siloutte (I can't spell!), which was created on David Palmer and Yanis Pikieris and been taken into Morris' company. Tina was great and I pretty sure she still dances. She was Mark's muse for a time and she's been with him from almost the very beginning. The stories we heard over a glass of wine or two really blew your hair back of the effort, sweat, fun and genius of Mark Morris . IP: Logged |
|
Azlan Administrator |
posted July 08, 2000 11:39
Thanks for sharing that, shag. Now, care to share those stories with us... IP: Logged |
|
Stuart Sweeney Administrator |
posted July 09, 2000 03:35
The UK Sunday papers pick up on Mark Morris and other events. Morris has had a real triumph in London with 'L'Allegro…' and 'Dido and Aeneas'. http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/00/07/09/sticuldnc02002.html http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,341207,00.html Shag, I spoke briefly with Tina when she was in London with SFB. I mentioned that I had seen her in 1985 with The MM Company when they were at the 300 seater Place Theatre in London. She smiled a big smile and reminisced about the various pieces including one to the all-girl group, The Violent Femmes, with the dancer including Tina doing 'rude things with dolls.' I haven't forgotten! [This message has been edited by Stuart Sweeney (edited July 09, 2000).] IP: Logged |
|
trina Moderator |
posted July 11, 2000 10:56
Mairead--the dance you're talking about is called "Songs that Tell a Story"....to music by the Louvin brothers..I believe. IP: Logged |
All times are PT (US) | next newest topic | next oldest topic |
  |
|
Powered by: Ultimate Bulletin Board, Version 5.39c
© Infopop Corporation (formerly Madrona Park, Inc.), 1998 - 1999.
