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Chilly scenes in winter

The year ahead on Boston stages
The drama of the holidays (and I don’t mean A Christmas Carol) may be behind us, but there’s plenty more drama — and comedy and musicals — ahead to light up long winter nights.
By LIZA WEISSTUCH | October 27, 2008

Young and old

Mark Morris at Tanglewood
The presence of company veterans infuses Mark Morris Dance Group with a maturity that both grounded and lifted this presentation to a higher plane.
By JANINE PARKER | July 02, 2008

Pillow talking

Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Mark Morris Dance Group
Last summer, Los Angeles Times dance critic Lewis Segal suggested that ballet is dying an ugly, boring death.
By JANINE PARKER | August 15, 2007

Double or nothing

Mark Morris revives Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at Tanglewood; Cosí fan tutte on Beacon Hill
The American premiere of Dido took place here in Boston, at the Majestic Theatre in June 1989.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | July 03, 2007

Lightweights

Mark Morris at the ICA, Latin Jazz at the Shubert
Two of Boston’s major dance series wound up their 2006–2007 season last week with low-calorie desserts.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | May 22, 2007

L’Allegro, fuss and feathers, and the ICA blues

A year in dance
This year we were looking forward to dance performances at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater in the new ICA.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 20, 2006

Hit and miss

Visiting and home teams swing for the fences
Boston Ballet didn’t need Mark Morris’s blessing in 1999, and it doesn’t need it now.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | March 22, 2006

Dancing to the music?

Mark Morris and George Balanchine
Seeing Mark Morris Dance Group do his L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato here in Boston back on January 20 and then New York City Ballet perform George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco and Symphony in C the following evening in New York was a reminder that the two 20th-century choreographers most noted for their use of music couldn’t be more different.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | February 02, 2006

Master movers

Mark Morris and Ronald K. Brown head to RIC
Rhode Island audiences have long been treated to national caliber dance troupes in Rhode Island College’s Performing Arts Series.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | February 01, 2006

Us, writ large

Mark Morris’s L’Allegro
Mark Morris’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato is a dance as big as its name, as big as its illustrious associates and enablers, George Frideric Handel, John Milton, William Blake, and a contemporary galaxy of dancers, musicians, and designers.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | January 24, 2006

Amazing weekend

James Levine with the BSO and BSO Chamber Players, Hoose and the Cantata Singers
James Levine’s opening salvo for his year-long Beethoven/Schoenberg series with the Boston Symphony Orchestra couldn’t have been more ambitious: the work that opened Symphony Hall in 1900.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | January 24, 2006

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