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“Wendy Osserman has been making quirky, highly individual work for years, and her new ‘more is more is more or less’ is likely to be as particular as ever.” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 5/14/09)
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The New York Times
ARTS / DANCE | March 29, 2008
Dance Review: Provoked by a Force of Nature
By Roslyn Sulcas
"...Ms Osserman has been creating dances since the early 1970's, but there is nothing old fashioned about 'Out of Place,' made in collaboration with the Czech composer, violinist and singer Iva Bittova. In fact the work is provocative precisely because it feels like a new amalgam of some indefinable kind...Ms Osserman uses Ms Bittova as a force of nature in the work...there is a kind of magic, a sense of being taken to a place you might never visit again." She also mentions "a mesmerizing solo by Ms. Osserman".
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New York Theater Wire
DANCE | March 28, 2008
Haunted Place
By Jack Anderson
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For a review of SURRENDER, our 2007 production, see "Reports from the Field" "Set Surrenders to Dance" by Jessica Sheridan 6/26/07
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"STICKING WITH IT
Veteran New York dancemaker offers insight into emotions and a howl re the re the state of our nation:
. . . Powerful stuff. You go girl!"
Deborah Jowitt, VILLAGE VOICE, 5/30/06
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"Osserman is still out there making dances with classic aesthetic and humanistic values, keeping a sharp-if ultimately loving- eye on the state of the world, and looking fabulous to boot. If I were a choreographer I'd envy Osserman for her smashing ensemble. . . They are the right dancers for Osserman's sculptural, expressionistic poetry." 2006, Eva Yaa Asantewaa
"Repeatedly the kind of support on view defines the emotional relationship depicted between the performers. In formal terms this seems to be Ms. Osserman's governing idea and it is a sophisticated concept. . . .These are studies in emotion as well as motion...movement and support used to generate dramaÂ…a welcome fresh note."
Anna Kisselgoff, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“A woman of taste and talent” "her drive and fluency are clear."
Deborah Jowitt, VILLAGE VOICE
“Wendy Osserman likes to invent unusual ways of getting dancers together…most ingenious…"
Jack Anderson, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“her program of well-made, expressionistic dances. . . (was a) winning evening. . .”
Lisa Jo Sagolla, BACKSTAGE
"Osserman is possessed of surprising lyricism...The entirety of Osserman's work was so finely orchestrated...the fullness of feeling made the fullness of the Dance."
Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Dance Magazine
“Osserman finds cosmic implications in personal experience. . .”
Gus Solomons Jr, THE VILLAGE VOICE
"Superb...Osserman creates a delicate hybrid of the old and the new."
Sharon Basco, THE BOSTON HERALD
"sculptural images and a quirky contortionist sensibility that is oddly appealing...Osserman's movement transposes the sensual physicality of Latin dance rhythms into something very different, forcing us to look at it with new eyes."
Lynne Conner, THE PITTSBURGH PRESS
"A kinetic sculptress...This lady's a remarkable performer...innovative and with an ability to make phrases appear freshly minted and gleaming."
Lillie F. Rosen, THE JEWISH JOURNAL
"something I will remember...the piece seemed primal, raw. It built up and seemed like something was going to explode. I want to see it again..."
Michael Black, HOUR online, MONTREAL
“fluid and distilled pieces. . . as much physicality as you could want. . . “
Francis Duffort, ICI, MONTREAL
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