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Performance Reviews

 

"Mr. Stilwell, bearded, with fair hair, pulled back into a ponytail, looks more like a film actor or a rock singer than a dancer, and his shoulders, with their high line, grow a bit hunched later, but the absorption he brings to his moves suggests that he isn’t so much dancing them as living them. Yet he makes them rewarding in purely dance terms. He alone shapes long phrases, with riveting diminuendos (sequences of reiterated movements tapering from big to small and strong to soft), and with sudden shifts of tone and speed but no apparent pause or gear change."

THE NEW YORK TIMES

 

"The objective of Temporary Collective, an all-star downtown dance group — Hilary Clark, Alex Escalante, Zack Fuller, Maria Hassabi, Jodi Melnick, Matthew Rogers, and Colin Stilwell — was to make something out of nothing. The untitled result, which unfolded in silence, was experiential and feathery light, with a few fleeting inspired moments..."

THE NEW YORK TIMES
 

"It’s just a standard ballet port de bras cambré, but [Stilwell] makes it the most serious and sensuous movement of the dance so far."

THE NEW YORK TIMES

 

"Colin Stilwell is remarkable as well – the clarity, lyricism, and profound commitment to his movement was compelling..."

Dancing Times