Article: Strange Spirits

Mark Morris Dance Group

Rose Theater

August 19 through 22

Strange Spirits

Mark Morris matches wits with Beethoven and Ives

I can only imagine what it must be like to dance to the playing of Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma. The spirit manifestation in Mark Morris's beautiful Visitation doesn't just happen onstage during Lincoln Center's "Mostly Mozart" series; it's Beethoven simmering to life in diese two master musicians' rendering of Beethoven's Cello Sonata No. 4 in C major. Op. 102, No. 1. Visitation mingles the everyday with the mysterious. Like the winding dialogue between cello and piano, the patterns of the choreography frequently chain together, separate, re-join, and repeat.

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