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You Can't Have It Both Ways: Mark Morris' Dido and Aeneas |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Octavio Roca |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1993 |
| Size: 1,464 Words, 9,134 Characters |
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Mark Morris, on his own again after his White Oak flirtations, arrived at Washington's Kennedy Center in October with one of his most ambitious and controversial works. The public at the Eisenhower Theater adored him and his comic version of Henry Purcell's tragic masterpiece Dido and Aeneas, with Morris himself cast in the two leading female roles of Dido and Sorceress. It was the American choreographer's first appearance in the capital since he teamed up with Mikhail Baryshnikov for the short-lived White Oaks Project in 1991. Before that, American audiences had most recently enjoyed the Morris touch in performances by his own Monnaie Theater group from Brussels. Dido and Aeneas, danced this season by the new Mark Morris Dance Group, provided a good chance for taking stock of a celebrated...
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...re a deep love for the work being ridiculed. When Morris interrupts the Sorceress' soaring flight with a nervous shimmy near the end of Dido, the uncertainty of the moment is neither terribly funny nor appropriate. The late Ludlam's Camille was--in his lifetime, not as revived more recently by Everett Quinton--both hysterical and devastating. Mark Morris' Dido and Aeneas is seldom even cute.
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