Word: choreographing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mark Morris is best known for his musicality. His talent lies in his successful synthesis of music and movement into an organic whole, rather than in his ability to choreograph innovative steps. What emerges in his dances is a continuous, ebullient surge of movement that exists in perfect harmony with the music. Yo Yo Ma's passionate delivery of the music on stage with the dancers along with the visual splendor of the costumes and sets-a murmur swept through the audience when the curtain rose before the third dance, revealing a backdrop of red and green waves of color...
Diamond began filming Dancemaker just as Taylor was preparing to choreograph Piazzolla Caldera, the finest dance he has made since his 1991 masterpiece, Company B. In the new piece seven men and five women pair off to perform slinky tangos with a brittle, self-conscious physicality that has the ragged edge of barely controlled violence. To watch Piazzolla Caldera evolve from dancer Francie Huber's first tentative steps in the studio to the electrifying New York City premiere last March is a delicious act of artistic voyeurism...
Though Taylor steers clear of personal revelations, he speaks engagingly about his often dark dances: "I get my energy, I think, from being afraid--being afraid to choreograph, being afraid to fail." There are no failures on display in Dancemaker, just a clear-eyed portrait of a great artist at work...
...auditions are required to join the troupe, although try-outs are mandatory for those who wish to participate in shows. Edwards and fellow co-director Helen Skinner '98 choreograph most of the performance pieces, usually to hip-hop style music or tunes by jazz greats Billy Holiday and John Coltrane...
...company] didn't have enough time to choreograph, so we ended up doing the electric slide," Sherrod said...