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Times Union
http://blogs.timesunion.com/reviews/?p=422
“Romeo and Juliet’s duet is the most lyrical and unaffected dancing…”
“Company veteran Lauren Grant was a special delight as a very empowered nurse.”
"...the couple seems to float into the heavens as the lights darken and the curtain falls."
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121555920497337363.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
“Colorfully and wittily detailed here with Italian street gesticulation of Mr. Morris’s own inventive devising…this ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is more like a pageant and home-spun tapestry…”
Village Voice
http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-07-16/dance/star-crossed-lovers-saved/
”Morris tweaks the scenario ingeniously.”
"Within Allen Moyer's design of blond-wood panels, Morris creates a Brueghelesque tumult that keeps your eyes busy."
Daily Gazette
http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2008/jul/06/MORRIS_0706/
“Choreographer Mark Morris is an excellent choice to tackle the music and story. He is musically astute and he likes to bend the rules.”
Bloomberg.com http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=auFvQ1ZtT6JA&refer=muse
"Leave it to Mark Morris to create a ``Romeo and Juliet'' danced to Prokofiev that features no balcony, no crypt, no pointe work, plenty of passion and violence, yet no final tragedy."
"One of the best elements of the production,..., is the detail with which the principals reflect the most fleeting emotion."
Danceviewtimes
http://www.danceviewtimes.com/2008/07/romeo-juliet-on.html#more
“Morris follows both Shakespeare's text and the score's demands with accuracy and respect, yet finds ample opportunity to put an individual stamp on the familiar characters and situations.”
“Morris gives [Romeo and Juliet] a great deal of … movement, to which Donahue brings a rich, juicy integrity and which Leventhal imbues with both ardent intensity and the gentleness of a sigh.”
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070801884.html
“Mindful of the previous ballet – and even Hollywood – productions of “Romeo and Juliet,” Morris made his small and intimate.”
“[The music] was edgier, spikier and more emotionally piercing than the later state-approved version.”
Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/728221bc-4d06-11dd-b527-000077b07658.html
“Morris's dance vernacular is modern and individual…”
“Paris, powerfully danced by Bradon McDonald, is built into a key figure, mixing with the townsfolk in busy street scenes and living it up in the ballroom…”
The Phoenix
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/64480-MARK-MORRISS-ROMEO-and-JULIET-LAR-LUBOVITCH/
“…the perfect high-art solution for our times.”
The Washington Times
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/11/romeo-off-the-beaten-path/
“[Morris] sets the work on a human, not heroic, scale.”
“Mr. Morris has always emphasized equality of the sexes in his choreography, and to prove the point,…two women dance two key male roles - Mercutio and Tybalt - and do them effectively.”
MusicalAmerica.com
"Morris' smartest casting decisions are Mercutio and Tybalt, played by Amber Darragh and Julie Worden.
The New York Observer
“…Maile Okamura has a lovely lyric quality…”
The New York Times
“Leon Botstein conducts the American Symphony Orchestra with precision and wit. The music sounds marvelously clear in the handsome acoustics of Bard College’s Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.”
