PRESS QUOTES

“[Garfield is] that rare artist capable of the most delicate of performance modulations, the most devastating of satiric thrusts.” Don Daniels, Ballet Review

“Keely Garfield's gaze (has) a wicked glint, as do the profoundly human creatures she finds under the rocks pulled up by her dances.” Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

“A performer of distinctive depth, wit, and force.” Robert Greskovic, New York Native

“[Her work is] wicked, witty and full of prickly dance intelligence.” Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

“This woman is a riot…, a tall dignified Brit, totally liberated, with impeccable timing and a wild comic sense.” Elizabeth Zimmer, The Village Voice

“Blessed with a vivid imagination and an unforced, effective understanding of what constitutes good theater, Garfield is simply one of the finest storytellers working in dance today.” Time Out New York

“David Mamet once wrote that a good piece of theater leaves one afterward thinking or talking about one’s own life rather than the work itself. A good performance resonates so deeply, or reflects with such specificity that one is easily led to reflection; in dance perhaps a strong work also leaves one physically moved. Keely Garfield’s work is the perfect mix of emotional intimacy and detailed description to achieve this." Lesbian & Gay New York

“Garfield is a master at presenting intimate moments of life with style and irony.” Time Out New York

“Funny and incisive, witty and mordant.” The Village Voice

“Wordless duets– tender, elusive pieces that cover dark, psychological territory…, aching and ironic invention.” The New Yorker

“This British choreographer has it all: sensual movement, bone-dry wit and in most cases, a song to set the mood.” Time Out New York

“A modern dance choreographer with an unmistakable voice, [her work] brims with literate, colorful dance achievement.” The New York Times

“If laughter is the best medicine, Keely Garfield ought to bottle herself, her performers and her dancers as an over-the-counter cure for innumerable ills.” The New York Times

“Exquisite and poetically subversive. Do not miss– if you know what’s good for you.” Ballet Review

“Seduces audiences with music, color, and whimsical performance. All the better to make us smile-wryly-while we think…enjoyable spectacle and subversion.” The Village Voice

“Brutally funny…Garfield’s troupe has the soul of a naughty child and a child’s impulse towards stark truthfulness.” The New Yorker

“Garfield has created an entire world of everyday fear and desire. Her expansive use of stage-time is hypnotic and very American. Her women are freshly beautiful and very funny.” Ballet Review

“Crazy-smart…superbly timed wildness…” The Village Voice.

“What lingers are the savory nuances of Garfield's implication-filled, scatological vocabulary.” The Dance Insider.

“The action in Garfield's dances follow an elusive, Alice-down-the-rabbit-hole illogic.” Dance Magazine

“(Her work) is a marvelous, hilarious act that no genius ever thought of before Garfield did…. Its funniness and, better yet, beauty, appears like a brilliant wit’s personality.” Ballet Review

“Sex underlies everything in Garfield’s work, as it does every place– but quietly, without diminishing its potency by calling attention to itself.” Ballet Review

“Distinguishes itself with subtlety and style…, a marvel of timing and wry human observation.” The Village Voice

“Highly theatrical and deeply emotional.” Woodstock Times

“Under her dance’s lighthearted surface pulses a delicate violence, a sense of impending disaster that requires of everyone a riveting attention. They watch one another. We watch them. We come away changed.” The Village Voice

“(The work) glows like a shiny, popping Christmas cracker stuffed with gewgaws so particular they seem essential…” The New York Times

"Not since Jerome Robbins hit the beach in High Button Shoes has there been anything like this." Ballet Review