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“Not to be missed…. Meyer appears moved by a primordial force, at times shedding the chains of ego and anatomy in rapid hyper-fluidity, bouncing off the floor like an amoeba on a trampoline, then returning to reflective, mercurial moments of humanity.”
- NewCity Stage
“Intense, challenging and aggressive.... The dancing is top-notch and unlike anything else happening in the city. Meyer and Ballard have made a piece of dance cinema in the flesh.”
- Trailerpilot
“The genius - and challenge - of Jonathan Meyer's new piece is how thoroughly it creates and inhabits its own world. [It is] a tight, efficient, uniquely enlightening journey into the elemental.”
- See Chicago Dance
“Like a David Lynch film, the piece also creates an environment that hovers somewhere between the bizarre and the beautiful.”
- Examiner
“A world of high-octane danger [going] way beyond the typical art-house presentation of alienating abstract imagery. This trio is fast and scary, whirling in place or falling to the floor with an intensity that imperils their bones.”
- Chicago Tribune
[Jonathan Meyer] is the Rainer Marie Rilke of movement poets, a man deeply fascinated by the possibility of peace and generosity in our troubled times…
- Attitude: The Dancers’ Magazine
His work reveals the blood, sweat, and tears of relationships and physicality.
- The Albuquerque Journal
Watching Jonathan Meyer and Julia Rae Antonick tumble, flip, and wrestle through their intricate duet work is like riding a roller coaster without leaving your chair.
- TimeOut Chicago
It’s just lovely movement that you could sit back and watch and luxuriate in… it’s also an example of artists who are exploring their process and where their movement vocabulary is generated from and then how they’re transforming that into quite beautiful and engaging movement onstage.
- Chicago Public Radio
It was exciting, fresh, rigorous, lucid, surprising and very, very difficult.
- Trailerpilot
