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In the work, the poems represent different states of mind: L’Allegro is a cheerful extrovert while il Penseroso is a meditative introvert.

Mark Morris’s “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato,” a dance of exacting and exceptional artistry, speaks to the fortitude of the human condition in both body and mind.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music is aligned with this thinking in presenting Mark Morris’s grand-scale modern-dance production “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato,” March 24 to 27.

Is there any more uplifting, optimistic and spring-centric dance work than Mark Morris’s 1988 masterpiece “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato”? Morris’s imagination, wit and musicality can be counted on to send pandemic-weary spirits into flight in this profound meditation on accepting the dark with the light.

Both he and Jackson had long-term Greek lovers whose different temperaments made the poetry scholar David Kalstone, Merrill’s close friend, “describe Strato + George as L’Allegro + Il Penseroso.”