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Rehearsals on the Cal Performances stage - April 22, 2014

The dancers and singers rehearsing in Berkeley the Monday prior to the World Premiere.

Photos by Johan Henckens.

Maile Okamura, Michelle Yard, Sherezade Panthaki (Galatea), and Douglas Williams (Polyphemus)	Mark Morris with the cast of Acis and Galatea.	Sherezadi Panthaki (Galatea) and Thomas Cooley (Acis) with Chelsea Lynn Acree, Maile Okamura, and Laurel Lynch.
The cast of dancers and singers on stage	Douglas Williams (Polyphemus) and Sherezade Panthaki (Galatea)	Mark Morris working with the Acis cast.
Sherezade Panthaki (Galatea) and Thomas Cooley (Acis)

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The Painting of the Drops - March 28, 2014

Technical Director Johan Henckens visited Scenic Art Studios where the sets are being painted.

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Rehearsal - March 24, 2014

Some studio shots of the dancers in rehearsal skirts at the James and Martha Duffy Performance Space at the Mark Morris Dance Center; one month out from the premiere. All photography by Rosalie O'Connor.

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Dancer costume fitting

Dancers' costume fitting - March 3, 2014

Costume designer Isaac Mizrahi returned to the Dance Center with the costume builders from John Kristiansen, New York, Inc., for the first fitting with the MMDG dancers.

Michelle Yard with team from John Kristiansen		Isaac Mizrahi, Brandon Randolph, Mark Morris
Jenn Weddel with Mizrahi	Brandon Randolph	Mizrahi with Maile Okamura
Mizrahi and Okamura		The tool kit of the costume builders.

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Revised backdrop samples - January 12, 2014

The creative team learned a lot from the November bauprobe and spent the next two months refining ideas. On January 12, they gathered together again at the Mark Morris Dance Center to test new materials and samples.

Mizrahi, Lobel, and Morris check the transparency of the layered drops	Chybowski, Lobel, Mizrahi, Morris The Creative Team	Set Models
Isaac Mizrahi photographs the fabric pattern through the drops	Adrianne Lobel examines the hole cut in the drop for the performers to pass through	Adrianne Lobel and Michael Chybowski with technical director Johan Henckens

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Viewing the backdrop samples - November 10, 2013

Small sample sections of the painted backdrops were created and hung in the James and Martha Duffy Performance Space at the Mark Morris Dance Center to test transparency, translucency, and lighting possibilities.