The Critics on CORE Performance Company
Atlanta’s best known contemporary dance company…
Susan Elliott, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
...one of the most satisfying dance concerts of the Houston dance season.
Nancy Wozny, Dance Source Houston
...She [Schroeder] and her dancers showed themselves to be strongly disciplined, quite athletic performers, capable of cleanly executing the quick, incisive movements that characterize her choreography.
Carl Cunningham, Houston Post
As the piece evolves from a single dancer to a group, the viewers are invited to let their dreams bear them along. Dreams are personal adventures, which the dancers celebrate…we are never lost in the passage from solo to ensemble to duet. These movements are key to the passageway between our dreams and our real lives, and they are elegantly expressed in this composition.
Dan Liss, Art Papers
Ms. Schroeder has a refreshingly old-time, solid sense of craft and shape.
Jennifer Dunning, New York Times
You can clearly see in their expressions, their true convictions, their uncertainties or their excuses; concerns are shrugged off or shoulders stoop under the heavy load of feelings of guilt. In dance, the interaction of movement and counter movement is how one approaches the theme and the bodily expression of politics. The technique of the contact improvisation unleashes an unbinding interpretation through the CORE dancer’s great liveliness.
Constanze Klementz, Berliner Morganpost
Crisp positioning and delicate gesture from three performers completed the measured music…A veteran group, CORE Performance Company should always be welcome in Austin.
Michael Barnes, America-Statesman
...The Behold the Lamb of God section (Messiah)…was a jewel…hands that stirred air, swung torsos upward and around, reached skyward, covered ears, curved in parallel shapes – an evocative combination, both in unison and in canon.
Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle
