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”As enjoyable to watch as it is sometimes giggly and sweetly silly. Using the prosaic elements of daily objects, the dancers astound us in their ability to cajole rambunctious, sensuous and generous physical musicality." Pia Huss Dagens Nyheter
Like walking into a secret garden where humans still dare to play and spring is in the air. .
Pia Huss, Dagens Nyheter
Claire Parsons has an acute sense for visual and theatrical situations. Women as nature and source for assessment - coming undone contains a flow of associations and surprising images spiced with humorous elements. The title coming undone also builds the structure of the piece: a puzzle where the pieces are complete in themselves or fit so loosely that the rhythm of the piece is unhinged. Chairs turn into snail houses, kitchen funnels become tits. Like Japanese geishas or show girls, the trio come together in strict choreography, executing intricate and unison steps in line formation.
Anna Ångström, Svenska Dagbladet
Claire Parsons new piece brings together the dream of Swan Lake with a playfulness that obliterates the distance between the stage and the audience. The choreography is filled with metaphors as in an elegant battle with a vacuum cleaner and dinner for a headless lady. Using the prosaic elements of daily objects, the dancers astound us in their ability to cajole rambunctiously sensuous and generous physical musicality.
Pia Huss, Dagens Nyheter.
Claire Parsons has always been drawn to a form of absurdism that connects to the expressivenes of the silent movies or to the dadaist movement. In Duck Walk, her controlled and sharply edged movements create an unresistable comic ambience and rythm, a peek-a-boo game with the restraints in a square of light or the folds of a dress, a diagnosis of movements and relations, formalistically secure and thoroughly composed.
Anna Ångström, Svenska Dagbladet
An enchanting dance of amour with a small cooking pot and constant surprises in lifts, falls and beautifully suspended movements. Physical memories become movements elevated to a ballet of the body's own stories.
V'ästerbottens Folkblad
A luscious and fiery collaboration between a dancer and a musician. The violinist Sara Edin lights up the stage with music that sizzles around Claire Parsons as if she is surrounded by fireflies. A musical movement that vibrates even in quiet moments. Sensuous, daring and very entertaining.
Dagens Nyheter
A sophisticated solo dance, a voyage in time with shifting emotional states and sudden twists. A choreographically clever, minimalistic piece of art and a beautiful dream in red with the exceptionally expressive Claire Parsons.
Arbetet Nyheterna
An exceptional piece of choreography. With apparently simple movement combinations, the choreography changes patterns, shifts, creates novelty and gives the audience a multi-layered personal dance language.
Jan Zetterberg, Dansens Hus
Claire Parsons creates comedy on several levels and her tools are enticingly hidden. She creates a curious double entendre, awakening feelings and giving us an atmosphere where the inexplicable becomes tangible.
Entré
A piece of dance genius and absolutely the prize winner of the evening. The piece talked to the audience in complex and structured images, carrying us thorugh through richly colourful spaces and constellations. The piece opened gradually, like a flower.
Anders Widoff, artist
An impressive piece of choreography with many elements and flavours. The force of the choreography was so strong that it remained with me long after the performance was over. A fantastic and genial piece with many patterns and combinations that threaded in and out, creating several enticing images. Elements were introduced that later reappeared. A fascinating piece with an impressively clever touch.
Ann-Marie Kjellsrud, The National Dance Association, Norway
Her movement style has her personal flavor of slapstick and force at times verging on the violent. The cast of five included four dancers and a mime artist who suddenly exploded in brutally daring actions. Claire Parsons knows how to bring out the best of this contrast.
Ballet International
The most interesting company in the festival was Claire Parsons from Sweden. She combines theater methods with a choregraphic material which are unwillingly brutal. Claire Parsons describes existences, relations and conflicts with familiar gestures, repetitions and combinations, and thus creates a new choreographic language.
Helsingin Sanomat, Finland
Choreographed with an intelligence that stimulates the audience to think and complete the dance themselves, with an involuntary gestural language that is unmistakably stimulating.
Louis Ziegler, France
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