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Romeo, Romeo.(Mark Morris Dance Group's 'Romeo & Juliet, on Motifs of Shakespeare')

The New Yorker

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"Ladies," Mark Morris says to his female ensemble, "you're getting pussified. Like, 'I'm an adorable My Little Pony.' I don't want girly--I want womany. Smack your skirts. It drives men wild." In a large studio at the top of the Brooklyn headquarters of the Mark Morris Dance Group, Morris is rehearsing his new work, "Romeo & Juliet, on Motifs of Shakespeare." The ballet will have its premiere, with the American Symphony Orchestra, at the Bard College SummerScape festival, in Annandale-on-Hudson, on July 4th. Then, after touring, it will arrive at Lincoln Center, in May of next year. Morris is working on a tarantella that will be danced in Verona's town square. In ...

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