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“Mathias’ music and Hermesdorf’s dancing are both strongly original…his techno-collision sound scores seem to pick up and egg on the edgy/athletic style promulgated by Hermesdorf, and copied by many.”
10/07 Michael Wade Simpson/culturevulture.net
“Hermesdorf and Mathias are coming up with some of the Bay Area’s most intriguing answers to the old conundrum about the interaction of dance and music. As Above/So Below is an evening of wit and pulsating energy…..”
10/04 Rita Felciano/San Francisco Bay Guardian
“…feral impulse and raw beauty...” 12/01 Ann Murphy/San Francisco Weekly
“There is poetry in MOTION LAB and a wealth of ideas, always delivered with an off-beat twist. Pure shape, partnered with an even purer dynamism arrests the imagination..…”
12/01 Rachel Howard/San Francisco Examiner
“Hermesdorf can phrase brilliantly, and can integrate individual moments into long, buttery streams of movement……talent is in the house.”
12/01 Allan Ulrich/San Francisco Chronicle
“Albert works up a big sound...it’s really, really good. The result is deeply original, woozy, brainy music that causes instant, almost involuntary, head-bobbing and shoulder-bopping. Which is great, considering that he is co-director of one of the city’s most progressive, athletic and all-around bitchin’ dance companies.”
“Kathleen Hermesdorf is the most intense, gnarly, sexy sprite to tear across a stage. Her company has Bay Area post-modern dancers licking their chops and the crowds are lining up to check out BLUE 2000, her nostalgic, ferociously romantic work, seemingly danced by human-shaped, acrobatic velociraptors on ecstasy...it’s tasty.”
12/99 Tracie Broom/San Francisco Metropolitan
“Mathias is no ordinary composer...an instantly likable stage presence, he not only holds his own with the rest of the company, but also proves to be a generous partner to Hermesdorf and an attractive dancer in his own right. He offers music and movement of real promise.”
“Fast and striking, visually arresting, the gestural language carries its own mystery.”
12/99 Octavio Roca/San Francisco Chronicle
“Kathleen Hermesdorf is possibly the most vibrant dancer currently working in the Bay Area - she sets fire to the stage whenever she’s on it. Liquid, lightning fast and moving from deep inside herself, she is a wonder to behold.”
12/99 Rita Felciano/San Francisco Bay Guardian
“Manically vibrant composer Albert Mathias and inventive choreographer, popular teacher and dancer extraordinaire Kathleen Hermesdorf introduce their company in an explosive yet intimate work.” 9/99 Apollonaire Scherr/San Francisco Magazine
“…grandmasters of the experimental performing arts scene here in San Francisco.”
2/98 Apollinaire Scherr/San Francisco Weekly