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Article: Acting with their feet Mark Godden excels in letting dancers' steps, gestures tell the story
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 14, 2009
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Mark Godden has given the Milwaukee Ballet three great dances:
"Angels in Architecture" (to Copland's "Appalachian Spring") in
2001, "Miroirs" (to Ravel's "Miroirs") in 2003, and the evening-
length "Magic Flute" (to Mozart, obviously) in 2005.
Godden is back, brewing a new piece about James Joyce and his
troubled daughter, Lucia.
Godden told the complicated "Magic Flute" story almost entirely
in steps and gestures. He showed a rare talent for embedding plot
and character in virtuosic dance, which is what dancers do well,
rather than acting, which they rarely do well.
The same sort of thinking seems to be at work in "Wonder Wild (A
Daughter's Want of a Father's Gaze)," to premiere at the ...