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The Mirror - Press Quotes

Kitt knows how to surprise her audience. Through very delicate movements, body control and a strong expressiveness, she creates shapes of higher existence.
Periodico El sol de Hidalgo, Mexico, August 2008

Misshapen figures hover, slither, approach and retreat….an extraordinary journey.
Every detail of action, sound, costuming and lighting is meticulously crafted … magnifying intensity.
Hillary Crampton, 5th October ‘06, The Age, Melbourne, Australia

A unique bodycontrol and sense of original movements. One of the most spectacular performances of the festival.
Line Adriane Anderssen, 23rd June ’06, Porsgrunns Dagblad, Norway.

The primal, decadent power of the figure never lets you go. It is the dark side of ourselves that we know too well.
Tobi Tobias, 8th November '04, The Village Voice, New York, USA.

The Mirror is an exquisite sculpture of metamorphoses … challengning perceptions and expectations and even empoying anthropomorphim ... surreal and yet familiar, reminiscent of Ernst, Arp, Miro.
Brian McCormic, 28th October '04, Gay City News, New York, USA.

Rare is the choreographer who can say a great deal with very little … Johnson knows how to fashion something original out of Expressionisms distortions of the body … Evoking an enlightened ideal before compressing her body into shriveled mortality: an intense dance, intensely performed.
Anna Kisselgoff, 19th October '04, New York Times, USA.

Magic, disturbing and passionate. Exceeding the state of absolute body control she pierces the question of the identification between the self and the other.
Agnes Benoist, 25th September '04, Lyon Figaro, France.

The Northern dance has cast a spell on Uzés. Kitt Johnson has her own unique style ... grace blended with strength. Her solo is impressive, both as fashion and performance art.
Marie-Christine Vernay, 26th June ’03, Liberation, France.

... World class dance theatre.
The Reumert Committee, on conferment of the year’s Reumert Award 2003 for best dance performance, 27th April ’03, Denmark.

... A quietly explosive solo ... wonderful stage attack plus superb presence makes The Mirror both a dazzling and self-forgetting experience.
Örjan Abrahamsson, 31st March ’03, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden.

The Mirror is a performance about human beings. Or ways of being. Or perhaps ways of seeing one’s own being… A true performer, Kitt is above all an entertainer. She knows how to surprise her audience…By the most delicate trembling of the chin or lifting the head or pressing the fingers together, she ascends to higher forms of existence, right in front of our eyes…When she disappears…it was like waking up from a dream you dearly wished would never end.
Anne Middelboe Christensen, Aug-Sep '02, Ballet-tanz.

It is dance absolutely in a class of its own. Kitt Johnson’s ease of expression and body control are nothing less than sublime. She can undulate her fingers as though they were sea anemones, raise a leg into the air like an ancient deep-sea organism or twirl herself in cloth like a dying mermaid. She can hover resembling a ghost-like old fossil with white matchstick legs folded out like a nearly invisible undercarriage. Or she can look like a little girl playing, an alluring rococo maiden, a depraved diva, or death itself. In The Mirror the micro-cosmos is, so to say, mirrored in the macro-cosmos…a very beautiful visual poem.
Majbritt Hjelmsbo, 25th April '02, Weekendavisen, Denmark.

Kitt Johnson is, in every way, unique in Danish dance theatre….due to her solo performances. These demand a lot from her audience but they also give an extraordinary beauty in return.
Henrik Lyding, 24th April '02, Jyllandsposten, Denmark.

The Mirror is a rousing performance with an intense co-operation between the visual and the audio in the most sublime surroundings one has ever seen her move.
Charlotte Christensen, 20th - 21st April '02, Information, Denmark.

Kitt Johnson bewitches eye and mind with her physical picture transformations.
Vibeke Wern, 20th April '02, Berlingske Tidende, Denmark.

Kitt Johnson is a loner, a black hole of concentration absorbing attention.
Janus Kodal, 19th April '02, Politiken, Denmark.


"The Mirror"
Photo: Per Morten Abrahamsen (2002)

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