Mark Morris Dance Group

Photography by WorldRedEye on October 17th, 2011 in Creative, Nightlife, Openings

Miami, FL – October 14, 2011 – Marking the opening performance of the DANCE AT THE ARSHT season, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County proudly announces a special two-night-only engagement of one of the most innovative and revered modern dance companies in the United States – Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG). The troupe will perform in Miami for the first time in 15 years, making its Arsht Center debut on October 14-15, 2011 at 8 p.m., in the Ziff Ballet Opera House as part of the Knight Masterworks Season, Sanford and Beatrice Ziff Dance Series.

Over the past three decades, the brilliant and inventive Mark Morris has infused American modern dance with an unparalleled freshness and originality. Currently celebrating its landmark 30^th Anniversary Season, MORRIS’ powerhouse MMDG opens the Sanford and Beatrice Ziff Dance Series with a critically acclaimed repertory program, featuring Miami premieres of three modern dance masterpieces: Festival Dance, one of Morris’ greatest new works, with music by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Piano Trio No.5; the austere and intense All Fours, set to Béla Bartók’s Fourth String Quartet; and for an unforgettable grand finale, the master choreographer’s V, a dance that exults in things profoundly mortal as well as divine, whose title references the music — Robert Schumann’s great Quintet in E-flat for piano and strings.