MARK MORRIS’S WORK IN HIGH DEMAND FROM BALLET COMPANIES

MARK MORRIS’S WORK IN HIGH DEMAND FROM BALLET COMPANIES

By: MMDG

Praise for Morris’s ballet choreography…"…Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, a work that reinvented the classical idiom and sealed Morris' reputation as a master choreographer." (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

A prolific choreographer for his own company, Mark Morris continues to receive recognition for his work in opera and ballet. Following his Metropolitan Opera debut earlier this year and his work being featured in the season repertory of the world’s best ballet companies – American Ballet Theater, Dutch National Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet (SFB) – this season resumes bringing Morris’s work to ballet audiences all over.

As part of SFB’s 75th Anniversary Season, Morris has been commissioned to collaborate with the composer John Adams on a new work. The work will premiere in San Francisco in April 2008. SFB will also perform Morris’s acclaimed Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes (January 31, 2008) as part of their home season.

This season, The Washington Ballet will premiere their first Morris work – Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes - (January 30, 2008) in Washington, D.C.
Ballet British Columbia will premiere A Garden (February 14, 2008) in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Last season, the Dutch National Ballet premiered Sandpaper Ballet as part of the Holland Festival and will take the work on their ten-city European tour (Spring 2008).
Visit the MMDG website for more information on Mark Morris’s work with ballet companies.

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