"Its dancers are better than ever, with the marvelous athleticism, vivid personalities and sleek sensuality the company has long fostered." -John Rockwell, The New York Times
"Wherever they go, they raise the roof. The sheer joy flooding across the footlights is irresistible." -The Times (Scotland)
"Stunningly inventive…mesmerizing…passionate…this is what dance is really about."
-- The New York Times
"Pascal Rioult celebrates the lyrical and the gutsy in his unmistakably individual and beguiling way."-- The New York Times
"Rioult stretches the imagination...creating a spine chilling work of choreography.... Perhaps the most adept and courageous choreographer in mainstream modern dance today." - Backstage
"Viewing Wien is like getting a front row seat at a grade 5 tornado." - The Salt Lake Tribune
"The kinetic delight of Keigwin's high-powered dancing is infectious."
-- Dance Magazine
"Bill T. Jones is a dancer abundantly blessed with musicality. Whether he is poised in classical ballet positions or sashaying about in a quick vaudeville buck-and-wing, he appears to find the best movement for the right moment"
-- Chicago Tribune
"Part surreal vaudeville, part circus, and part toy store after midnight. Whimsical… a delight for the eye." – The Village Voice
"Pinto's movement is sophisticated, rigorous, stylized. With the help of director Avshalom Pollak, she organizes those elements into a shimmering, shadowy world at once puzzling and plausible, a fantasy as eternally quixotic as a clown's sorrowful smile." – Vicki Sanders, Boston Herald
"The Cunningham dancers are among the strongest, most heroic anywhere."
-- The Washington Post
"Take a deep breath, because Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is going to take your breath away."
-- The Washington Post
"Paul Taylor is quite simply the most extraordinary choreographer alive. Steps flow from him and ideas bubble ."
-- Clive Barnes, New York Post
"These choreographers have been honing their voices for many years. It shows; theirs is work to savor."
-- The New York Times
"When you go to see choreography by Moses Pendleton, artistic director and founder of MOMIX, you expect to be astonished. Botanica…has astonishment to spare." – Nancy G. Heller, The Philadelphia Enquirer
"The Joffrey Ballet has long been known for its versatility, moving as it has from one divergent style to another with easy verve for half a century."-- The New York Times
"The Cleveland Orchestra and Joffrey Ballet create bold, beautiful ballet together." - The Plain Dealer
"If you like your dance virtuosic, spiritually uplifting and socially conscious, don't miss Philadanco." – The Philadelphia Enquirer
"The continuity of changing imagery, the easy sensuousness and the wonderful push-me-pull-you surprises of the physicality: These still seem to come right out of their makers' dreams and into ours."
-- Alastair Macaulay, The New York Times
"Ailey's phenomenal popularity is unmatched by any other company."
-- The New York Times
"Varone can make the most common gesture, a grasp of the hand, or an arm outstretched in regret and let it soar into the realm of imagination."
-- Toronto Star
"If there's a classically trained company of the future, it's Aspen Santa Fe Ballet"
-- Boston Herald
"Awesome dancing and a backbeat to knock it all home. Eye-popping digital effects." -- The Village Voice
"A rare accomplishment in the world of contemporary dance. Barton's alarmingly original voice resounds with a thwack." -- Boston Globe
"Barton's dancers are like bold splashes of paint. They shimmer and resonate like stringed instruments, sing in overtones, and emote in a multitude of tongues." -Dance Magazine
"Doug Elkins is an authentic creator who knows how to hustle and translate traditional choreographic language into new forms..."
-- Le Figaro, Paris
"The Latin-American experience at last has a voice in the feisty, elegant dancing of Ballet Hispanico"
-- The New York Times
"Ballet Memphis is something of a little engine that could, to sum up the imaginative grit of Dorothy Gunther Pugh, who has presided over the group with equal dashes of elegance and temerity for 20 years." – The New York Times
"If the comedy group Monty Python were a ballet company, it might be something like the Trockaderos."rnrn-- San Diego Arts
