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Backstage March 24, 2000
"Fly-by-Night Dance Theater and the musical combo Guanabana created a relaxed, kid-friendly atmosphere for their late-afternoon performance of songs and low-flying trapeze-dance at Context Studios.... Smartly choregraphed by Julie Ludwick, the program's dance offerings blend acrobatic maneuvers on low-hung trapezes with a terre modern dancing. The result is remarkedly un-circus-like...." LISA JO SAGOLLA Attitude Summer 2000 "Julie Ludwick's Second Annual Fly-by-Night Dance Theater at Context Studios on March 11,2000 was a warm medley of innovative, colorful choreography that lighted the imagination of children and adults.... The mix of children's excitement, the trapeze dancing and the music made the night magical....Throughout the evening, children and adults alike were given the opportunity to express their feelings and impressions with crayons. After the performance, Julie Ludwick and dancers welcomed children and adults to share their creations. Ludwick and dancers bring the audience into the production; they validate children's viewpoints and receive them with sensitivity and openess...." IRENE STURLA
New York Times April 19, 1993
Thea Nerissa Barnes and Julie Ludwick @ Thompson Hall, Columbia University "Thea Nerissa Barnes and Julie Ludwick are both compelling performers, and the six dances they presented on Saturday night were nicely complementary. Ms. Barnes, who has danced with Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey, is earthbound in the best sense. Ms. Ludwick, a ballet dancer turned trapezist is a creature of the air. And both are thoughtful, intelligent choreographers.. . . The fascination of Ms. Ludwick's sprawling new What Goes Up set to a Bach
piano score, was the skill with which she integrated the performers swinging,
dangling and spinning from three trapezes and those moving below. Ms. Ludwick
was the most persuasive dancer in the group. But her choregraphy gave the
others simple, responsive things to do, such as running circuitous paths
through the thicket of shifting trapezes, punctuated by charming trapeze
duets and other pairings, withthe trapeze bars sometimes serving as ballet
barres."
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