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Reviews of Interglacial:
The Dance Enthusiast
Fjord Review
Praise for Failure
“Peterson succeeds in glorifying the inevitable. People fail. You will fail. This embrace of the universal human experience will likely secure the work a “timeless” badge among Laura Peterson Choreography’s (LPC) growing repertoire.”
Jenny Thompson, Dance Enthusiast
“Failure invites us as members of this culture to reassess the ways in which we personalize its narratives of failure and achievement, challenging us to take a more compassionate and measured approach. Perhaps, like its dancers, by accepting our failures or reshaping the stories around them, we may find empowerment and, ultimately, transcendence. “
Emily Cordes, Theater is Easy
“Peterson is an artist of the infrastructure, an observer of the banal underpinnings of our sensational, illusory world.”
Tom Philips, Danceviewtimes.com
“Smart, severe, oddly moving work”
Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice
“One of my favorite dance events of the past year…. Laura Peterson Choreography’s Forever at DNA. So much that I loved about formal dance in one clean performance.”
Mary Love Hodges DanceResponse.com
Full Reviews
Impressions: DIY Dancer review of “Failure” By Jenny Thompson
Theater is Easy review of “Failure” By Emily Cordes
StageBuddy review of “Failure” By Aron Cantor
Occupy the Arts blog review of “Failure” By Tom Phillips
Danceviewtimes review of “The Futurist” Danceviewtimes
Danceviewtimes Review of Wooden: Down To Earth By Tom Phillips
Brooklyn Rail Review of Wooden By L.J. Sunshine
Village Voice Review of Forever. By Deborah Jowitt
Village Voice Review of I Love Dan Flavin By Deborah Jowitt
DanceBeat Review of Wooden: Goodbye to the Green by Deborah Jowitt
Forever By Tom Phillips, danceviewtimes
Dance Enthusiast Article about Laura Peterson By Christine Jowers, danceenthusiast.com
Instinct on Parade By Tom Phillips, danceviewtimes
older quotes…
“Dance New Amsterdam was smart to name Laura Peterson as one of its 2007-8 artists in residence”
Gia Kourlas, New York Times
“Peterson’s style, which in the past has often enhanced her wit and comedic sense, with more straight or angled lines than curved ones. She herself, an intriguing performer, can dance like a wild, but tensed-up child, flesh pared down to bone.”
Deborah Jowitt, DanceBeat
“I’d settle for more choreographers as hip as Laura Peterson”
Tom Philips, DanceviewTimes
“Perfectly enchanting.”
Philadelphia City Paper
“Chic and amusing…It’s all delightful, sinister fun.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
“Ingenious composition”
Buenos Aires Herald
“… extraordinary dancing by feisty, fiercely-committed bleached blond Laura Peterson lit up the stage.”
-Backstage Magazine
“Laura Peterson in a ‘Real Little Lady’ stood on her knees in a stylish red coat, a black pillbox hat and matching gloves. Her non-sequitur monologue was a framework for her to run the gamut of emotions, from cordiality to hysteria.”
-Attitude- The Dancers’ Magazine
“The dance is filled to the bursting with emotion. ‘LoveSong’, choreographed and performed by Laura Peterson, presents with wild sarcasm a hysteria of evilness.”
-Dresdener Neueste Nachrichten
“Peterson’s ‘Chaise Lung’ a wordless meeting of two geeks on a couch, struck the perfect balance between campy high artifice and the grotesque.”
-Philadelphia Inquirer
“…’Crutches’, an ingenious composition by Laura Peterson.”
-Buenos Aires Herald