Reviews

Dance Insider

What's best in Troika Ranch's "Surfacing" is the meld of live performance with video. This is deservedly Troika Ranch's trademark. With three-story high falling and slow motion figures, four tall rectangular fabric panels as screens for live-feed and delayed video images, and four dancers animating geometries of the panels on the honey-colored floor, Troika Ranch deftly melds its visual acuity with the lofty spaciousness of St. Mark's Church, where "Surfacing" premiered May 20 as part of Danspace Project's Dance Access. When the dance and media balance, just so, a spectator's eye and ear move between mediums, synthesizing in Wagner's dreamed-of way...

Choreographer Dawn Stoppiello's movement, fleshy with wide arcs of leg and hand, appears to take both ease and oomph to perform. It's gutsy and breathy without being overtly dramatic."

• Read the Full Review

Off Off Off.com

"The limitless combinations of video, music and dance made possible for today's choreographers by current technology have put quite a few sensory muddles onstage in recent years, but Troika Ranch has figured out how to juggle different media by sticking to the 'Keep It Simple, Stupid' mantra. "Surfacing" at Danspace/St. Mark's Church was a dreamily violent piece of beauty, danced well.

• Read the Full Review