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Mark Morris' L'Allegro: a life-affirming dose duplicate harmony
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Dance Review: Kyle Abraham's landmark work pushes dance boundaries
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Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion performing "The Watershed."
( Photo by Steven Schreiber, courtesy of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Mass MoCA)
NORTH ADAMS - How do you create an abstract modern dance about two milestones in history?
That was the task celebrated choreographer Kyle Abraham set for himself two years ago. He wanted to create several works based on two historic milestones: the 20th anniversary of the end of Apartheid in South Africa and last year's 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
But unless you have the dancers dress up as Abraham Lincoln or Nelson Mandela, how exactly do you depict two historical events?
Abraham considered adding a section of dialogue to "The Watershed" in the first half of the piece in which the dancers in his company, Abraham.In.Motion, would stop and talk about the difficult of creating a dance based on these historic events, Abraham explained during a question-and-answer period after Sunday's performance of "The Watershed" at Mass MOCA.
Instead, he opted to keep the piece more abstract. Either way, Abraham faced a difficult decision. And frankly, in my opinion, a
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A Slow Build to Joy: Mark Morris’s Dance-Packed Orfeo ed Euridice at the Metropolitan Opera
There’s a simple and almost-sublime passage in Mark Morris’s dance-packed production of Orfeo ed Euridice at the Metropolitan Opera when the dancers, dressed in sunny costumes by Isaac Mizrahi, break into traveling pyramids. Two dancers carry a third on their arms while moving briskly across the stage, and the third dancer appears to soar. Others, meanwhile, dance in gender-blind pairings, jumping and galloping before switching to a supporting role so their partners can have a turn at the fun. In a nod to court dancing, they hold their arms high in the air and circle one another, but Morris throws in stomps, hops, and side kicks to make it all thoroughly modern. The gods — in this production a range of historical figures including Queen Elizabeth I, Abraham Lincoln, and Hiawatha — watch and smile approvingly from above.
This scene occurs at the end of the opera, when Orfeo has just returned from the underworld with Euridice, his newly resurrected wife. Earlier, Orfeo descends to the realm of the dead and rescues his bride with the permission of Amore (portrayed here with a pixie hairdo, a pink polo shirt, and khaki capris). Amore gives Orfeo two rules: He mu