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MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP MAY CALL BELGIUM HOME
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The Mark Morris Dance Group, America's hottest modern dance
company, may be on its way to a new home -- in Belgium. The group
expects to be named the official dance company of the Theatre Royal
de la Monnaie in Brussels next week, according to company manager
Barry Alterman, who said yesterday that the group's nomination for
the post will be voted on by the Monnaie's board next Tuesday.
Morris, the most sought-after choreographer in America, plans to
relocate to Belgium with his company n...
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MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP MAY CALL BELGIUM HOME
The Boston Globe
; ... Mikhail Baryshnikov and American Ballet Theatre. Boston Ballet artistic director Bruce Marks said, "Oh, shoot!" on learning the news that Brussels would host the "L'Allegro" premiere. Marks said he had been forced to abandon the ballet's original idea of doing ...
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MORRIS' NEW SURPRISE: A DANCE TO SILENCE
The Boston Globe
; Last time Mark Morris came to town he played a she -- dancing the parts of the Queen of Carthage and the Sorceress in "Dido and Aeneas" at the Emerson Majestic Theater a year ago. Morris as a woman is actually less surprising an idea, to those familiar with his flamboyant and brilliant work, than
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US PREMIER BY MORRIS EN ROUTE TO BOSTON
The Boston Globe
; "Mark Morris Go Home!" blared the April 24 front page of Le Soir, Brussels' leading newspaper. The headline was printed in English, lest the 32-year-old choreographer miss the point. Morris and his mostly American company had just ended their first season as what amounts to the national ballet of
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Mark Morris's Happy Homecoming; In Boston, Choreographer Puts Belgium Behind Him
The Washington Post
; "Mark Morris Go Home," blared a recent headline in Brussels's leading newspaper. Such indications of the American choreographer's alienation of the Belgian audience and press during his first season as resident choreographer of the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie preceded Morris's return visit to the
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THE TRIUMPH OF MARK MORRIS A DYNAMIC CHOREOGRAPHER MOVES HIS COMPANY TO BRUSSELS AND SHAKES UP THE WORLD OF DANCE
The Boston Globe
; "We are barefoot dancers from America," says Mark Morris in an offhand way, gazing into the Art Nouveau-style mirror in his dressing room in one of Europe's most glorious opera houses, Brussels' Theatre Royal de la Monnaie. That other barefoot dancer from America, Isadora Duncan, might have spoken
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A masterwork on the peerless dancemaster Morris
The Boston Globe
; MARK MORRIS By Joan Acocella. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 226 pp. Illustrated. $27.50. Christine Temin reviews dance and art for the Globe. `My philosophy of dance? I make it up, and you watch it. End of philosophy." That was the response the upstart American choreographer Mark Morris gave to a
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BUILDING ON THE WORK OF MASTERS MARK MORRIS BRINGS 'L'ALLEGRO' BACK TO BOSTON
The Boston Globe
; NEW YORK - Mark Morris's "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato" is considered a masterpiece. Since its world premiere at the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels in 1988, it has often been described as one of the most joyful and endearing works ever created by an American modern dance
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Mark Morris, Matched With a Proper Partner; The Dance Master Strikes Sparks With Yo-Yo Ma
The Washington Post
; "Don't swoon it up!" wet-faced choreographer Mark Morris shouts at his dancers as they launch into a set of steps he's just shown them. "Make it Apollonian! Apollonian!" That Morris invokes the Greek god of serenity and order is ironic, since he is more identified with the opposite
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MORRIS' 'L'ALLEGRO' A MASTERPIECE
The Boston Globe
; Monnaie Dance Group / Mark Morris In "L'Allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato," by Georg Frideric Handel, after poems by John Milton. At the Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium, through Dec. 21. BRUSSELS - With his first work made in his new home, Mark Morris has demolished the myth of the
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TELL TCHAIKOVSKY THE NEWS Morris' modern-dress `Nutcracker' makes the stale ballet fresh again
The Boston Globe
; THE HARD NUT At: Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium, through Jan. 27. BRUSSELS -- Among the characters in Mark Morris' "Nutcracker," which premiered in Brussels Saturday night, are GI Joes, male snowflakes in tutus and tow shoes, and a dentist. There are no children in this pro-
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