Word: verum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four slightly older girls perform in Mozartiana. They are dressed in black, and at the opening of the ballet they frame Farrell in a mysterious image. The music is Tchaikovsky's setting of a Mozart motet known as the Ave Verum Corpus. The backdrop is the one used throughout the festival, a vaulting of 3,600 translucent tubes, designed by Philip Johnson. (It took 50 men 75 hours to install the 200,000-lb. set.) In Mozartiana, as elsewhere, the play of light on the clear columns gives a spacious harmony to the scene. The tableau is more enigmatic...
...festival. I have been talking to Mr. Tchaikovsky, saying, 'Please let me be well enough to dance.' In Mozartiana Mr. B. wanted us to move in a different way. I have never seen these steps before, and the way they are put together is new. The Ave Verum is a piece I used to sing in church when I was a little girl. As I'm dancing, I silently sing the Latin text. I love the set. The design makes it feel huge. Light changes it-like prisms. The set, along with the music, makes you move...