Mark Morris Dance Group
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 1, 2012
Closed Mar 3, 2012
Opened Mar 1, 2012
Closed Mar 3, 2012
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Running Time:
1hr. 35min.
(includes 1 intermission)
1hr. 35min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Mark Morris' marvelously spirited and musically attuned dances have redefined our ideas of the body in motion. Mark Morris Dance Group returns to BAM this year with the reprise of the opera Four Saints in Three Acts. With orchestral and choral music by Virgil Thomson (performed live by the MMDG Music Ensemble), libretto by Gertrude Stein, and illustrator and author Maira Kalman's luminous sets, Morris' Four Saints,/I> is grand, ebullient, and spiritually resonant. By way of delightful processions, sevillanas, and redolent folk dancing, the deliverance to heaven of the Spanish saints Teresa of Avila and Ignatius of Loyola comes to life.
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Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thompson's Four Saints in the Three Acts has had a long and unusual history, from its 1934 Broadway premiere through various concert versions, and then the 2000 dance created by the award-winning choreographer Mark Morris, and now being presented by the Mark Morris Dance Group at BAM through March 3.
The work, with its fractured, almost nonsensical verse and slight narrative (which actually covers four acts), isn't the most conventional framework for a dance piece, and it's not necessarily Morris' most satisfying work. Choreographically, it features many charming, if not necessarily innovative group scenes, and there are fewer virtuoso moments than one might expect[...]