Mark Morris

All That Froth: Morris Gives Purcell a Cutesy Vaudeville Treatment

Mark Morris’ <i>King Arthur</i> at the New York City Opera.
New York City Opera
Mark Morris’ King Arthur at the New York City Opera.

One of the givens about Mark Morris is that he’s especially musical. And certainly he’s shown an unusually broad and knowledgeable appreciation of music in his choice of scores. Just as important, he’s trained his dancers to inhabit the music fully and sensitively. (He himself was deeply musical as a dancer.) So what to make of his version of Henry Purcell’s semi-opera, semi-masque King Arthur, now at the New York City Opera?  read more »

Another Slice of Elo; A Sweet Morris Returns

Carmen Corella, Michele Wiles and Marian Butler in Mark Morris
Gene Schiavone
Carmen Corella, Michele Wiles and Marian Butler in Mark Morris

City Ballet got one last season, and now A.B.T.  read more »

Mark Morris Does Mozart: A Dose of Sheer Pleasure

Mark Morris—the wonder boy of dance for more than two decades now—has been going through a bad p  read more »

Mark Morris Does Mozart: A Dose of Sheer Pleasure

Mark Morris
Stephanie Berger
Mark Morris

Mark Morris—the wonder boy of dance for more than two decades now—has been going through  read more »

Morris Toys With Sylvia; San Francisco’s Ace Dancers

Mark Morris
Erik Tomasson
Mark Morris

 “I am tired of the ‘Six.’ I am weary of Erik Satie.  read more »

Morris Toys With Sylvia; San Francisco's Ace Dancers

“I am tired of the ‘Six.’ I am weary of Erik Satie. I am fed up with Malipiero.  read more »

Morris Honors 25 Years With Canny Selection of Works

Amber Darragh (foreground) in Mark Morris&#039; <i>Dido and Aeneas</i>.
Stephanie Berger
Amber Darragh (foreground) in Mark Morris' Dido and Aeneas.

The past three weeks at B.A.M.  read more »

A Brief Glimpse of Mark Morris As Performer and Choreographer

Last week in this space I was complaining about the inferior choreographers we've been exposed to la  read more »

And Lo! Gospels from Mark, Epistles from Paul

Schumann's Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.  read more »

The Fifth Saint in Brooklyn: Mark Morris Takes On Stein

Come all, ye madcaps, here's Gertrude Stein.The place to be in 1934, if you were in the Modernist  read more »

Curtains for Capeman ?Paul Simon's $11 Million Mess

The final preview of a Broadway musical is always happily hysterical.  read more »