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Los Angeles Times | Mon, 2007-11-19
“The prevailing satiric tone freshens the classic story without trivializing it, and the simplicity of the staging keeps the key issues and performances front and center.” …“The Old English epic never had it so good…”
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Los Angeles Times | Sat, 2007-07-28
“Full-blown dance erupted in the last section, with [Marissa] LaBog alternately hawking real-estate and writhing, kicking and punching as part of the ‘dragon’ ensemble…DJ Elseware furiously scratched, mashed and mixed on the side of the stage in Duckler’s metaphorical take on today’s harsh, good-cversus-evil world…”
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The New York Times | Tue, 2006-07-25
“As a weary, doggedly oblivious stage housewife washed, dried and folded her clothes, dancers raced through a piece that was funny, occasionally dark and strangely poignant…”
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Los Angeles Magazine | Tue, 2006-02-21
“At the police academy, the ridh visual contradictions—the rock gardens, the training grounds, that coffee shop decorated with fading photos and billy clubs—will become C’opera’s costars…”
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Los Angeles Times | Sat, 2006-02-11
“A superior work of choreography and music plays off its loaded setting: the L.A. Police Academy…”
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The New York Times | Sun, 2006-02-05
“Capt. Richard Bonneau, the police department’s ombudsman, said, ‘It was decided it would be a good thing to do from the perspective of making a different type of contact with the larger community in Los Angeles, through the artist community.’”
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L.A. Architect | Fri, 2005-09-02
“Duckler is one of a few choreographers in the United States who eschew the traditional proscenium stage and instead create works that are inspired by, created within, reflective of and therefore integrally connected to a specific place…”
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Preservation | Sat, 2004-07-31
“…she shined the crystal chandeliers in the oval ballroom, tuned the Steinway grand in the cozy piano bar, and dusted off the rounded, high-back booths in the salmon-pink dining room. Then she and her dance troupe gave Perino’s the spectacular, if unorthodox, sendoff it deserved.”
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Los Angeles Times | Fri, 2004-04-02
“…as Pleshette coos Kafka at us over a menu or Chris Stanley performs intense contortions on a chair to keep us entertained until the entrees arrive, we glimpse exactly how much illusion still leavens our daily bread.”
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