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A 22-member crew of personable, versatile performers, accomplished in a mix of ballet, modern, and jazz modes, who are out to please without begging. Village Voice 8/15/05

The movement of “Reel”–now angular and thrusting against the air, now sinuously splayed against the ground–looked as if it might belong to an ancient tribal culture with ties to various postmodern nations (Tom Pearson); With no obvious structure and only the smallest hints of message, Breezy Berryman’s “Widow’s Walk” satisfied simply through the precision, vitality, and rhythmic sense of its five robust dancers (Joyce SoHo Presents). Village Voice 7/25/05

I didn’t so much mind the gratuitous brutal hostility–one must, after all, move with the times–but the adolescent acting out of childish fantasies rooted in the grotesquely disgusting . . . Village Voice 7/19/05

In a ruminative homoerotic duet rife with emotional subtlety, even acrobatic moves look like the characters’ natural means of expression. Village Voice 7/19/05

Simply through scrupulous descriptions of what people wore, the writer brings social and theatrical milieus alive. Village Voice 7/5/05

Love and death, in their myriad guises. Village Voice 6/10/05

They demonstrate essential dance qualities–a profound sense of rhythm, gorgeously shaped phrasing, palpable joy in motion, and lionhearted courage in performance–that once sees all too rarely these days in the highest temples of the art. Village Voice 5/31/05

Tense Dave’s neighbors (or fantasies) include an elegant sadist, a nightgowned damsel with extravagant suicidal impulses, a languid lady given to enacting the scenarios of Victorian bodice rippers, and a creepy fellow who does nasty things to small creatures in his spare time. Village Voice 5/31/05

Lunar Sea is not a dance but rather multimedia light entertainment for the eyes that blithely ignores engaging the mind or heart. Village Voice 5/24/05

Dare I say that the show sometimes seems unreal in its surface perfection, as if the irregularities and ambiguities that make art and life profound had yielded to Disneyfication? (Nrityagram); Andrea E. Woods may be essentially a solo performer–as Souloworks, the punning title of her enterprise, indicates–but she has a steady partner in the rhythmically cut, boldly angled video footage she creates as accompaniment. Village Voice 5/16/05