TWIS Talks RIAF: High Expectations for Mark Morris Dance Group

in Community, Music, The Arts / by / on August 2, 2012 at 12:50 pm /

Mark Morris Dance Group photo by Marc Royce.

This art nerd has a confession to make.

Sit me in a college lecture hall and I feel at home as visual theories about art roll from my tongue to the rhythm of slides clicking around the carousel of a humming projector. Stand me before a painting or sculpture in an art museum and I am at ease jotting erudite notes about form, color and symbolism that help me draw my conclusions about the artist’s intent.

Sit me in the audience of a dance performance, however, and all traces of academia are stripped from my vocabulary. I am left with simple verbiage that comes in the form of “Whoa” and “Wow” as I betray the hardly-elementary extent of my formal education in the art of dance.

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Jessi Smith


Jessi Smith is a senior staff writer at This Week in Sarasota. She lives and works in downtown Sarasota with Margot, the most magnificent cat to ever set paws on this planet. Jessi is passionate about engaging the community with the arts, traveling, eating really good food, and the Oxford comma. She smells like patchouli and occasionally does yoga.