ARIA SPINTA

Press extracts

Frankly, I was astounded by every element of this bizarre event. I don’t expect to see anything better for a very long time.
Lesley Barnes, Venue Magazine Bristol, 11.–25. 5. 2001

A wonderful perfomance full of laughing and laugh provoking.
Bonner Rundschau, 27. 4. 2001

Carefully re-activating the clichés, Déjà Donné produces a witty, wonderfully knowing entertainment.
Donald Hutera, Dance Theatre Journal, April 2001

A HUGE thank you is due to Déjà Donné Production for this work, which triumphantly demonstrates that dance can be truly funny and that zany, chaotic performances presented with charm can live up to any amount of hype.
Don Morris, The Scotsman, 24. 8. 2000

Welcome to the gloriously shambolic performance that is Aria Spinta in which Déjà Donné Production bring the house down.
Mary Brennan, The Herald, 25. 8. 2000

A fabulous fresh, youthful breeze passes through the Avignon audience. Seventy-five minutes of gentle folly and joy is offered up for the sharing.
Daniele Carraz, La Provence, 29. 7. 2000

Suspended objects and projectors collapse but they continue to dance and to love. Madly, hopelessly, to evade misfortune. With a persistent vitality of such force that it is conveyed fully to the audience.
Mitzi Gerber, V. Dauphiné, 29. 7. 2000

The show is all the more refreshing for showing us the side of ourselves that makes us laugh an honest laugh.
Micah Jayne, The Prague Post, 12. 4. 2000

So light, so charming, so full of life, so non-confrontational, full of song and extrovertness, as uncompromisingly comic as dance can be. And so loving to both the small and large catastrophes of everyday life. One might think that everything is improvised. And that is real art.
Bettina Schulte, Badische Zeitung, 29. 2. 2000

The five all-around artists of DEJA DONNE have laughter on their side. And we all know that he who laughs last, laughs best.
Hartmut Regitz, Ballet International, October 1999

The skilled performers, who hailed from several nations, portrayed befuddled dancers putting on a show in which everything went awry. „Aria Spinta„ was rib-tickling fun.
Jack Anderson, The New York Times, 30. 10. 1999

Their youth and independance leads this likeable group around Lenka Flory and Simone Sandroni to battle and they win.
Irmela Kästner, Die Welt, 23. 8. 1999

Déjà Donné from the Czech Republic with its Aria Spinta is young, dynamic, charming, riveting and full of bold esprit.
Monika Fabry, Hamburger Abendblatt, 23. 8. 1999

Da Capo! A breath of fresh air on the European dancing scene!
Wiebke Hüster, Basler Zeitung, 6. 7. 1999

Against all opposition, the dancers continue to perform this shambolic ballet accompanied by a totally improbable soundtrack (arranged by Gaëtan van den Berg) and with striking agility and grace. Laid-back, zany and tender in turn, but always magnificent amidst the chaos, this piece is a fabulous succes.
L´Alsace, 3. 7. 1999

A metaphor of a performance which moves at one hundred miles per hour and which is always humorous and lighthearted, like a great burst of life.
Derniéres Nouvelles D´Alsace, 7. 7. 1999