- By Tom Phillips
In his mischievous mode, Mark Morris is a serious comedian. He doesn't take his dancers seriously, but he
has them act as if they’re taking themselves seriously – and in the distance between these points of view is the genius of his gentle wit.
Morris’s new work, “Words,” is set to Mendelssohn’s “Songs
Without Words” for violin and piano, and it reminds me of another comic
masterpiece with music by Mendelssohn – Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s
Dream.” “What fools these mortals be!”
says Puck, but we love their foolishness as we do our own.
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Laurel Lynch and Billy Smith -- Mark Morris Dance Group
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