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When choreographer Mark Morris rehearses in his studio, he looks like he is conducting an orchestra. Walking across the wooden floor with a brown shawl wrapped around his shoulders and New Balance sneakers on his feet, Morris points first to the piano, then to the dancers. A musical scale falls, then one of the dancers falls too; but the two movements don’t echo, they come together...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Morris Dances with Wolfgang | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

...don’t want people to look like they are dancing in response to something,” Morris explained to a crowd in Sanders Theater last Wednesday (this time wearing a pink shawl and the same sneakers). The relationship between music and dance was the focus of his discussion with former Boston Globe music critic Richard Dyer, a fitting preview to the Boston premiere of Morris’s “Mozart Dances” at the Boston Opera House last weekend...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Morris Dances with Wolfgang | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

FashionFail: Fugly gold shawl thing...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Recap: The Grandfather Part II | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...Agha, Ferdowsi am ba mast!" a young man tells his friends and points towards the statue in Ferdowsi Square. A green shawl has been wrapped around the neck and wrists of Iran's national poet, the author of the country's thousand-year old epic, the Shahnameh. "Ferdowsi is with us!" We are in the middle of our own epic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: Among the Protesters in Tehran | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...Aires, when he actually presided over the religious institution. At the ultra-orthodox seminary, run by the Society of St. Pius X, mass is said in Latin with the priest facing the altar and turning his back to the congregation. At services, women must wear long skirts and a shawl over their heads. (Read "Finding God on YouTube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina Deports a Holocaust-Denying Bishop | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

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