“Jalopy’s engaging journey before the inevitable crash”
“…the 70-minute escapade – a reworking of ‘jalopy’ originally presented in 2002 in Adsitt’s native Seattle – offers up a journey, literally and figuratively, that’s highly intriguing with smart acting and fine dancing by all and imaginative site-specific staging, lighting by Mandy Ringger, audio by Jeff Lorenz, and co-direction by Gwyneth Reitz. (Co-created with Robin Kurtz)
- Gus Solomons Jr., Gay City News
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“Alethea Adsitt’s Mediation on Cars and Self-Repair”
“…alluring…”
“In ‘the new jalopy’, Alethea Adsitt’s migratory work seen on Thursday at Dance New Amsterdam, the metaphor of a journey in a battered old car is used to tell a story of transformation, from dysfunction to self-repair.”
- Gia Kourlas, The New York Times
“Women of Substance”
“…Alethea Adsitt moved with fresh openness,
doing her challenging, physically luscious dancing…”
“…two powerfully individual choreographic voices
that spoke loudly and clearly in a shared concert…”
“…solid grasp of composition, as well as a strong
sense of theater…”
“…In Blink: The Indelible Blue Wall Coda,
Adsitt reflects on the frenetic urbanity of New York life.’
[You Are Here/Blink, a shared evening
of work by Alexandra Beller and Alethea Adsitt]
- Gus Solomons Jr., Gay City News
“Downtown and uptown dance meet in a Brooklyn fest…”
“From a frenzy of leaps, lifts, and turns in the first program
to more contemplative works in the second, Alethea Adsitt's Blink:
The Indelible Blue Wall Coda was the most grounded and
satisfying. Integrating video, fluid and gestural choreography,
layered sound, and modest theatricality, Adsitt and dancers
convincingly explored the intrigue of casual encounters.”
[Cool New York 2005] - Carley Petesch, The
Village Voice
“The Yard Season opens with variety and style”
“…Created a tense, edgy atmosphere…backed
by a score of moody beats and tones…that suggested a futuristic,
Brave New World atmosphere…”
[Round Trip Ticket] - Martha’s
Vineyard Times
“Drama in relationship”
“…two simultaneous duets uniquely sharing the space to express their individual perils in their respective relationships…”
“…Wit and creativity was apparent in
her direction of the couples…an ironic element in this work’s
theme as ‘dinner’ became the setting for much more than
eating.”
[To Di[n]e] - Martha’s Vineyard
Times
“The Way They Were – In which our performance critics supply the year’s misty watercolor memories”
Best House Tour
“Jalopy, [from Alethea Adsitt] was everywhere in the Hugo House last January, and so were we--our loopy hostess had us singing and tiptoeing up and down stairs, past tableaux and vignettes that were both disturbing and familiar.”
- Best Of 2002, Seattle Weekly
“JALOPY”
“…was like the car trip from hell: breakdowns, sing-alongs, tedium and nausea. Whether you’re usually a driver or always a passenger, we’ve all spent part of our lives in the car, and this dance theater work brings back all the memories of those automotive times. Relive the trip when you picked up a bizarre hitchhiker or remember the back seat power struggles with your siblings (Mom, he’s breathing my air) while the glassbones artists take to the road.
Sandra Kurtz, Seattle Weekly
“Jalopy”
“Using multiple rooms, Jalopy uses dance and dialogue to tell the tale of seven passengers on a long drive, as both the car and their relationships start to fall apart…”
- The Stranger Suggests
“[Feast] (On The Boards)
...an evening of surreal, kinetic,
and highly visual performance.”
– The Stranger Suggests
“Writing/Choreography…Alethea Adsitt…is first
rate...everything is as imaginatively deluded as the robust characters
and noodle-headed story.”
- The Seattle Times
“[Salamander Sickness] In this new dance/theater
duet, Alethea Adsitt explores life, love, and the pursuit
of a really good fight.”
- The Seattle Times
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