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Article: Dido and Aeneas.
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- August 6, 1990
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Dido and Aeneas
"GRETA GARBO and Sarah Bernhardt are rolling in their graves," said a friend who had just seen Mark Morris in Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. The comment suggests the adoration and cultishness that surround Morris, the outspoken 34-year-old American dancer and choreographer who has been artistic director of the Monnaie Dance Company in Brussels for the past two years. In June he brought his troupe to the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Majestic Theater, where he performed the dual female roles of Dido and the Sorceress. This was the big event of a bland spring season.
But it would have been an event in any season. Morris has been a media ...