Dancers Overcoming Gravity
BERKELEY—The amazing Mark Morris dancers, 17 strong, are learning to veto the law of gravity as they glide almost weightlessly through a night of Mozart. Mark Morris, that master hybrid of ballet/modern dance and its middle ground, showed off his timeless evening-long “Mozart Dances” with sublime poetry and musical sensitivity. Is there any choreographer alive comparable? His light-footed ensemble of 17 dancers seemed to levitate and float through the air. Meantime his dance moves—sometimes modern ballet, sometimes innovative modern dance—explore…