Just listened to Mark Morris' interview on NPR. What an interesting guy. His description of the dances in Indonesia sound fascinating! Got to read his memoir, "Out Loud".
Hello :) I am a professional modern dancer and let me tell you: 1)At the time, dance was moving away from more literal/ on-the-nose plot-lines and characters at this point, so there was more of an exploration of the dancers' technical abilities and creative limits, and less focus on a linear plot, like in a ballet for example. 2) Mark Morris, was greatly inspired by the actual music notations and often used dance as a visual way to represent musical theory. I've been lucky enough to take his classes and he often choreographs with the actual sheet music in front of him so he can get ideas from the musical notation. In this piece, he is also using a few choreographic/music composition techniques which seem to really inspire him throughout his works. accumulation, repetition, and scale/ ( google them for clear examples) He also used some baroque era dance steps which would have been similar to what people would have danced like at the time that Mozart was alive/ :) Hopefully this helps :) I know that dance choreography can weird if you don't have context. Please look up Mark Morris interveiws about his works, he is a wonderful guy tbh. The mozart festival was mostly a chance to commission performing artist and flex tbh. It's a fun festival :)
Just listened to Mark Morris' interview on NPR. What an interesting guy. His description of the dances in Indonesia sound fascinating!
Got to read his memoir, "Out Loud".
wow
What is this dance about? How does it tie into Mozart?
Hello :) I am a professional modern dancer and let me tell you:
1)At the time, dance was moving away from more literal/ on-the-nose plot-lines and characters at this point, so there was more of an exploration of the dancers' technical abilities and creative limits, and less focus on a linear plot, like in a ballet for example.
2) Mark Morris, was greatly inspired by the actual music notations and often used dance as a visual way to represent musical theory. I've been lucky enough to take his classes and he often choreographs with the actual sheet music in front of him so he can get ideas from the musical notation.
In this piece, he is also using a few choreographic/music composition techniques which seem to really inspire him throughout his works. accumulation, repetition, and scale/ ( google them for clear examples)
He also used some baroque era dance steps which would have been similar to what people would have danced like at the time that Mozart was alive/ :)
Hopefully this helps :) I know that dance choreography can weird if you don't have context. Please look up Mark Morris interveiws about his works, he is a wonderful guy tbh. The mozart festival was mostly a chance to commission performing artist and flex tbh. It's a fun festival :)
ROAR WITH THE PRIDE!
Um...dancer credits would have been nice!!! Geesh.