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Colorado DAILY CAMERA, Boulder, CO
08-04-2002
Review (excerpts) of "Jeux Bleu" (premiere)
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by Janine Gastineau

"Aerial Dance Astonishes Crowd"
... The North Carolina based Alban Elved Dance Company returns this season with the tender "Jeux Bleu" ... Using rope and harness, Karola Luttringhaus and Andrea Lieske manipulate each other in a marvelous dance of give-and-take.

Luttringhaus choreographs images of surprising vulnerability, using a figure skaters death spiral, or a slow walk, which she performs parallel to, and six inches off the floor, around Lieske's hips."

Colorado DAILY CAMERA, Boulder, CO
07-28-2001
Review (excerpts) of "ALTERNATE REALITY" (premiere)
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by Janine Gastineau

"Aerial Dance Show a Visual Treat" ..."wonderful" ... "stunning effect"..."funny"
...Karola Luttringhaus and Andrea Lieske (of the Berlin founded- North Carolina based Alban Elved Dance Company) dance the wonderful "Alternate Reality"atop two wooden boxes to stunning effect. Bound to the ceiling by single waist-attached ropes and harnesses, the two women dressed in men's suits, perform a strange, funny dance of connection and alienation. They scrabble along the sharp edges of the boxes' outlines, then hang upside down, spinning slowly, their ropes like some bizarre umbilicus preventing them from getting far - or too close- to one another....