PRESS QUOTES

2008-07-18T07:51:00.001-07:00

"Most striking in his personality is the diminutive Leonides D. Arpon,an Israeli-born Filipino"John Rockwell - The New York Times

"Shinka" Photo Steven Schreiber.

"Leonides Arpon, danced in a completely different manner, with awonderful sense of rhythm and liveliness... Emphasizing the funkytaste of street dance with elastic movements to the percussive music,his soul was dancing even more than his body"Akiko Nishijima - The Arts Cure

"Leonides D. Arpon's contemporary ballet duet "Sooleo" courageouslyused classical vocabulary to evoke a stark aesthetic and a comicsensibility"Lisa Jo Sagolla - Backstage Magazine

Lindsay Ashmun and Ben Asriel in "Border". Photo by Ho Chang.

"Gerald Casel is a stunning dancer, resilient and full of compact force. He moves through a series of partnerships and defines himself through his body, reshaping it in different modes."

Anna Kisselgoff- The New York Times

"Casel showed stylistic range, structural sense, an eye for telling detail, a knack for quirky movement invention and a clever way with leverage." Tom Strini- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Sounds of the Earth"/ "Cold Song"

Everything came together in Mr. Luna's new "Mga Awit (A Love Cycle forVoice, Cello & Piano),"... The suite brims with cycles of growth andrenewals, particularly in two group segments that stand out for their unexpected thrusts and patterns. Mr. Luna knows how to move hisdancers and juxtapose them and his onstage musicians. The bright opening solo by Matt Anctil and a lush duet for Mr. Jordan and MicaBernas are as authoritative, and feel as personal"Jennifer Dunning - The New York Times

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