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The dancers are all-male and completely urban, and they know how to sashay
and hip-hop and muscle themselves across the floor like no la-di-da ballerina
can.
Houston Press
The choreography kept the action cohesive and moving toward a clean resolution.
In this way, the classical music became counterpoint and complement to
dancing onstage and an original direction for both art and media.
Daily News – Anchorage, AK.
The freeze frames, amusing glances in our direction and pranks entertained,
but it was the corkscrew turns and limber-legged strength that captivated.
Austin American-Statesman
The works are choreographed by Wood and dancers, and achieve a seamless
style of cool twists, complex visual harmonies and amazing break dance
tricks.
Arts Houston.
FLY Dance Company -- hot-tempered men from the USA -- was definitely
the most exotic guest of the festival.
Virumaa Teataja (Estonia)
In "Trading Places," while one guy made sound-effects accompaniment
with a microphone (known as "beat boxing"), his partner turned
into a dancing robot.
Orange County Register.
The stage sparked with personality as each dancer tried to outdo the
others in over-the-top parodies filled with eye-popping stunts.
Austin American Statesman
"Cool Pops" featured a hilarious and wicked interpretation
of Michael Jackson and "Billie Jean;" Barron did a terrific
stage-crossing moon walk. And when Garcia spelled out L-O-V-E with his
upside down body in coordination with a Nat Cole standard, well, it felt
like a hip-hop apotheosis of some kind.
Orange County Register.
Finally, there was something deeply gratifying about seeing four guys
together, dancing for the pure joy of it. They combine unquestionable
mastery with a raw style, and that's a hard and valuable thing to find
nowadays.
Orange County Register.
What would classical music and street dance possibly have in common?
Lots, according to FLY Dance Company. This group of young men blasted
onto the Discovery Theatre stage Saturday night with a very unusual dance
concert.
Daily News – Anchorage, AK.
"Cookin" was definitely not the sexed up, violence-prone dance
of Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. Director-choreographer Kathy Musick
Wood has tapped into young, urban movement expressions and expanded their
vocabularies through the structures of contemporary dance.
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