"The Hard Nut, " an alternative take on the ballet by the Brooklyn-based MarkMorris Dance Group featuring groovy 1960s dance moves and a remote-controlled rat, canceled performances in Berkeley, Calif.
"D-Man in the Waters" (1989), an often frantically busy exercise performed in Ms. Prince's olive-drab costuming to Mendelssohn's effervescent Octet for Strings in E-Flat Major, began life as a showcase honoring a company dancer then ravaged by AIDS. It remains a thin, derivative work that looks back here and there in its diving-to-the-stage energy to Paul Taylor's masterly, heart-pumping, Bach-inspired 1975 "Esplanade, " as well as to Mark Morris's evocative and momentous 1981 "Gloria" (to Vivaldi).
"The deal probably won't be done until whatever the SEC is doing is concluded, " says Mark Asset Management MorrisMark, who holds a position in the shares.