Guestbooks
After every performance, the audience exits into a space where a couple of Guestbooks are laid out. Some people write in them; some don’t. Some send emails which are then taped into the books.
- Wow! Totally wild. Like going to another plane of existence. Thanks for the trip. Radical ballet rocks! - (RB)
- Perfection - Bob Wallace
- A Salvador Dali painting coming alive with all its disconnects.
- I don’t know how I was supposed to feel. I couldn’t tell you if it was good or bad. But it made me feel things you aren’t supposed to define. That is art. It was a piece of art. Beautiful. Raw. Real. Chaotic. - (Jenny)
- Incredible manner of marking the time. Twenty-four lights? Beautiful seeing that progression, even if it wasn’t always transparent in the movements themselves. Independence and harmony, full of constant surprise. Wonderful. - (Naomi)
- My heart stopped beating (almost) … What a beautiful, moving, shocking performance. It was so gorgeous, so incredible, touching. All the men dancing, so delicate, so precise, with joy and pain. It was one of the most beautiful dance pieces I have seen in [my] life, so meaningful and so so deep. DNA made a wonderful creation! Thank you for the dance, for the music, the lights, the direction. This is life. - (Manuela Büchting)
- O Hillar, of course you always try my patience … But in a (very) good way. - (Kirsten Johnson)
- The string of lights held so much for me … I don’t know what this show is about. … The athleticism! Felt strange compulsion to lay down in the pools of sweat left on the floor. Beautiful.
- Thank you for returning some of my humanity. - (Stephen Seabrook)
- Oh Hillar - since I cannot move anymore, I am so moved. What a beautiful piece. Cried several times, which was ‘skittish’? … Adored it. … And I HATE DANCE! - (Sky Gilbert)
- Your work was fantastic and really messed up … I enjoyed every moment of beauty, chaos, and stillness. You will be in my daydreams for weeks to come. I can’t articulate what I “learned” in any precise terms, but this was one of those moments / one of those movements that make me wonder … Thank you for a brilliant experience. - (Chiamaka Umeh)
- Loved it! I felt I’m watching my brain, and at the same time my brain is responding too! Weird! But awesome!! … Don’t know if anyone else has mentioned this or not, but most of the time when you guys went back under the lights in ‘neutral’ the shadows looked exactly like a womb / uterus. It’s creepily awesome. Thanks for the inspiration! - (Phoebe)
- Breathtaking. Beautiful. Heroic. Thank you. - (Jini Stolk)
- Hillar & Magda, thanks for this experience. I’ll remember the heart beating so violently through the bare-chested dancer, feeling threatened as a dancer came directly at me, the beauty of the magnificent jumps and ballet ‘moves’ these dancers were able to execute, puzzlement as to what was going on at times and an appreciation of how much work it takes to be a ballet dancer. … Oh yeah, the sweat, I’ll remember the sweat! - (Kevin)