THE PRESS SAID
About Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, the press said:
“At the end, the audience was on their feet applauding in ovation, and I, who am not at all easy to cry, wept with an emotion that is difficult to contain and explain. (…) Laura Aris Álvarez's “Let Sleeping Dogs Lie” is a before and after! I think that, once again, I've gone back to being twenty years old and that this experience has made me “click” and has become part of my DNA’.”
—Alfonso Becerra, Artezblai, 13-05-2024, Galicia (ES).“She has transfigured the material made of memory and sensations into dramaturgy, a big word that contains more than one. So we see that there is a dramaturgy of the object, of the costume, of the body, which, by the way, plays the primordial role because it is a body that carries within itself a technique that, over time, has metamorphosed into experience, into humanity, into art.”
—Genoveva Mora Toral, El Apuntador, 19-12-2019, Quito, Ecuador."Aris dresses—and undresses—her work with elements that appear and disappear, apparently from nothingness, giving a twist to a fairly abstract plot that reveals intimate pain and hope."
—Jordi Bordes, El Punt Avui, 2017, Olot (ES).“The piece is sustained by the expressive strength of Aris and the good ideas it hides.”
—Oriol Puig Taulé, Núvol, the digital culture magazine, 2017, Olot (ES).
About Open Wound, the press said:
“Open Wound, a performance that goes beyond what the audience reads as a dance piece, it was something like unfolding a body language sustained by dance but at the same time nourished by powerful theatricality.”
— Genoveva Mora Toral, El Apuntador, 2016, Quito, Ecuador.“A glossy highlight is set in the open air courtyard by dancer Laura Aris, who bewitches in her Open Wound with the infatuating and unsettling grace of a praying mantis.”
— Martin Vögele, Manheimer Morgen, 2017, Germany.
About Cualquier Mañana, the press said:
"Only two mature and well-versed performers can endow so much richness to each of their movements on stage, from their brutal stage presence to the meticulousness of their transitions from one step to the next."
—Luis Alberto Sosa Berlinga, Sep 28, 2022. Achtung! Dance, stage. Madrid.“The star of this year's festival was Laura Aris Álvarez, a renowned Spanish dancer and choreographer who held a workshop and performed with a solo and a duet. She has been on the European dance scene for more than twenty years. And why it was obviously seen in the duo Cualquier Mañana, who played with her younger colleague Álvaro Esteban.
—Tomislav Čadež, Jutarnji Kultura, Svetvičenat International Festival, Croatia, 2017
"On the stage, they demonstrated that their conceptualisation and proposal as artists are translated to the body and their performance capacity. At Any Given Morning displays in front of us the deep dialogue of a couple.”
—El Apuntador, Review of Performing Arts Quito, Ecuador, 2016.“It’s all here, and all portrayed very strongly and to great effect.”
David Mead, January 29th, 2016, Experimental Theatre, National Theatre, Taipei,
"Esteban and Aris use every fibre of their bodies to produce expression. We would have gladly seen more. "
—Dietmar Kanthak, February 7th, 2/1017, Boon, Germany."Esteban and Aris are two wonderfully unsettling creatures as big as when two dancers harmonise.”
—Nicole Strecker, Schambefreiter Liebesschmerz, Feb 6th, 2017 Boon, Germany.
About Línea y Contorno de Un Abismo, the press said:
“Línea y Contorno de un Abismo is, ultimately, a fundamental work in which contemporary interpretation and the lost genius of the distant poet are combined in a way that plays with the audience's perception, who must gradually uncover each facet of the author's personality and work. We hope this excellent production will be shared on more stages internationally.”
—Paulina Soto, November 19th, 2018 - Reviews, Pablo Palacio: Fundamental Animal."
About Geometry of Breath, the press said:
“Geometry of Breath draws inspiration from elemental forces, dramaturgically and choreographically layering them into an impressive performance material that offers an interpretatively rich experience for the audience.”
— The jury Dance Network of Croatia (PMH), 2023.
“The final piece that they showed to the Zagreb audience can be "read" on countless different levels, from the fact that geometry is literally present in everything, which is a clear reminded of the light created by Saša Fistrić all the way to which human emotions intertwine and melt, which is excellently shown by the stage use of costumes by the dancers”.
—Bojana Radovič, 12/09/2022.
