L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

MusicOMH“Everything is very polished and very smooth...” It is a work which is beautiful rather than adventurous, but it is very exquisite; with the highest standards of performance, choreography and music. Although not narrative in the way that an opera is, this work is at home in the opera house...

Financial Times“These dancers are superb...” Morris is, at once, the most sophisticated and the most innocent of dance-makers: he hears music, finds a way to make it flesh, and shows us this, a disarming simplicity masking a goldsmith’s mastery...

The Independent“No one danced like this before Mark Morris...” Morris matches Handel's and Milton's vision of the richness of life on his own terms, switching between teeming displays of formal geometry – chevrons and circles, lines and grids – and more random-looking scenes that tell human stories...

The Telegraph“It is lovely in every single way...” By the time Mark Morris’s dancers ran rapidly downstage, holding hands like blithe angels at the conclusion of this glorious piece, my jaw ached with smiling. There aren’t many dance works that are a pure joy from beginning to end, but this is...

The Times“The very architecture of the movement is shaped to emote...” Morris’s response to Handel’s music is startlingly alive; it flows like balm to a troubled soul, full of warmth and wonderment, humour and joy, sorrow and sleep , for all the vicissitudes of life are here...

this is london“Every time it’s performed, audiences rise and critics rave...” 24 barefooted, seemingly informal dancers convey nymphs and satyrs, trees, hounds and horse-drawn chariots. They dance in abstract lines and chains and chevrons, alternating poses of play and sorrow...

Guardian“Morris's choreography has never looked more luminous...” As waves of running, leaping dancers breast the stage, arms wide in a flying embrace, they gather you up into the simple exhilarating joy of the moment. You never want it to stop...

London Dance“The choreography is a marathon of wit and invention...” Morris and his outstanding troupe of dancers (not forgetting the important contributions of the ENO orchestra and the New London Chamber Choir) provided delight, joy and mirth in a work of immense imagination, touched, liberally, by genius...

The Stage“Leaves the audience skipping home on a high...” A subtle synthesis of design, lighting, poetry, music and dance make this an enriching work of 32 dances full of joy for the 24 barefoot vivacious dancers. It closes with an exuberant choral chant in praise of mirth...

Whatsonstage.com“Not yet reviewed”