“Dagmar Spain, heretofore a choreographer, has now embarked on a much more ambitious path. Re:turn, her new piece, is a play with dance and live music. Into this she has integrated film, which serves for soliloquies in which the actors on stage speak to themselves on film, and vise versa. The film also expands on the four on-stage actors into a larger group, so that they walk out of and into the on-screen party which is the play’s overall setting. These ideas, if not completely new, are fresh in the way they are used. Finally Ms. Spain herself is always enchanting to watch when she dances. She has a natural sensuality, rhythm, and sense of line that never desert her.”
-Roberta Pikser www.theatrescene.net
“Ms. Spain has a gift for creating myth, and she seems blessedly content just to enter into and explore those myths at her own quiet pace.” “Ms. Spain has a lovely imagination.”
- Jennifer Dunning New York Times
“The brain in Spain challenges form, film and the audience.” “I couldn’t imagine excising any part of this enigmatic production. It’s too prickly to embrace but perfectly logical in its illogic.”
-Eva Yaa Asantewaa Village Voice
“Occasionally, Ms. Spain’s profusion of choreographic images created a perplexing urban jumble. But her changes of tone were so varied that the action never grew monotonous.”
-Jack Anderson New York Times
“On the whole this company, in trying to bring together not only various disciplines but various people, including performers and audience, is trying to tell us something important: that we need to reach out to each other, to believe in our best dreams of humanity, if we want to survive.”
-Roberta Pikser Arts Cure NY
“What she (Dagmar Spain) has is a keen sense of the variety of human experience and the conviction that it lies at the heart of work for the stage.”
-Toby Tobias Village Voice
“The Czech-born dancer-choreographer… Dagmar Spain… addresses the interesting subject of life in totalitarian and racist societies as experienced by children.”
-William Littler The Toronto Star
