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MOVING ON.(Dido and Aeneas)(Dance review)

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For its twenty-fifth-anniversary season, in March, the Mark Morris Dance Group staged a monthlong blowout. There were three full programs of dances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, plus three programs of smaller pieces--"Solos, Duets, and Trios"--at the company's headquarters, across the street. There were photo exhibitions and panels and interviews. BAM's Rose Cinemas showed Morris's favorite movies; its cafe featured musicians of his choice. There was even a karaoke night, which Morris led off with a rendition of Patsy Cline's "Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray."

It was all quite grand and--typically, for Morris--brash, since one of the developments it ...

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