What's so hard about getting dance to "sing" on TV

Apropos of posts earlier this summer--from Paul and me and Tonya (a.k.a. Swan Lake Samba Girl)--about how dance translates to the screen (or fails to), here's an advance feature I wrote for Newsday about "Live From Lincoln Center's" national telecast this Thursday of Mark Morris' widely acclaimed "Mozart Dances."

Morris and the wonderful 86-year-old director of "Live From...," Kirk Browning, shed much light on the subject--and both are forthright about the difficulties of making dance work onscreen. Browning describes all of the things he does to make it work--and, wow, what a lot of work it is!

August 12, 2007 8:25 PM | | Comments (1)

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By Tonya on August 14, 2007 2:34 PM

Great article! I'll be really excited to watch it now, although it would be on the one night this week I actually have theater tickets (I'll tape it though). Annoyingly though, apparently PBS isn't broadcasting it everywhere: http://artsplace.blogspot.com/2007/08/sad-no-mozart-dances-on-west-coast.html

Apollinaire responds: Thank you, Tonya. At mmdg.org, the Mark Morris Dance Group site, you can type in your zip code and see what your local viewing options are. Nifty!

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