Mark Morris Dance Group in "Layla and Majnun"
An ancient love story makes a rare Western appearance in this stunning collaboration with the Silk Road Ensemble. With live music.
“[Morris has] a profound talent for fusing note and step and making it all sublimely entertaining.” San Francisco Chronicle
The opera Layla and Majnun, based on an ancient tale well known in the Islamic world, makes a rare Western appearance in this stunning collaboration between the great dancemaker Mark Morris and the Silk Road Ensemble. On a set reflecting the striking visual palette of British painter Howard Hodgkin, the Mark Morris Dance Group performs to live, onstage music by the Silk Road Ensemble, including Azerbaijani “living treasures” Alim and Fargana Qasimov, masters of the improvisational, searingly emotive mugham vocal style.
Supported by the Marion and Frederick B. Whittemore ’53, T’54 Distinguished Artists Series Fund, a gift from Claire Foerster and Daniel S. Bernstein 1987, the Howard Gilman 1944 Directorship Fund and Hopkins Center Members.
Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts’ Art Works, the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
