Kalasam

"…a rich and absorbing dance that feels like the work of a single vision: congruent, integrated, and authentic. Kalasam has a ghostly pull that becomes more and more mesmerizing over time…Kalasam is like heat you can see, wavy and warping your vision to make everyday things look new."

—Sima Belmar, The San Francisco Bay Guardian

"…jazzy explosions of movement in a tradeoff with phrases yielding a contemplative tenderness.… resounding focus and visual purity.…a potent mixture of contrasts that the audience found captivating."

—Marilyn Tucker, The Times

"…the choreographer’s cool intellectualism gives the fragments a distant, remembered quality, like details salvaged carefully from the morass of the past."

—Ann Murphy, The Express

Kristallnacht

"…the jagged rhythms of Karp’s choreography carry powerful emotional echoes.…phrases as devastating as they were measured."

—Octavio Roca, San Francisco Chronicle

"…a stunning synthesis of history and art…a grim form of dance-theater, reminiscent of Edward Hopper’s lonely paintings and full of allusions."

—Paul Hertelendy, The San Jose Mercury Times

"The movement suggested huge reserves of mood and attitude. Karp’s own fine solo, the climatic high point, was an anguished cry without words. One gets the feeling that Karp and her dancers are on a journey that tugs at motion and memory in vivid expressionistic terms."

— Marilyn Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle