"Ludwig’s dances don’t always face issues
dead-on or pose heart-wrenching questions, but art like theirs often lead
us, the audience, to raise them ourselves."
Merilyn Jackson NEW TIMES (Phoenix)
"Ann Ludwig dips her dancers in
mud, pairs them with giant meatballs and uses Hooters restaurant as
subject matter. When we learned that Ludwig's latest piece, 'Til Death Do
Us Part was to be a full-length commentary on the state of matrimony, we
thought: This has to be good. And it was."
Jaime Rose, ARIZONA REPUBLIC
"Fifteen years ago, I opened my
first review of an Ann Ludwig concert with the words, Who is Ann Ludwig
and why does she hate me? Answer: She's one of the first people in Arizona
to have made contemporary dance, and she doesn't hate me. At the time, in
fact, she didn't even know me, though eventually we met. Ludwig's work,
performed by her A Ludwig Dance Theatre has ranged over the years from
extreme avant-garde performance pieces... to some very thoughtful
reflections on the human condition. From what I've seen of it, Ludwig's 'Til
Death Do Us Part falls into the latter category."
Kenneth LaFave, ARIZONA REPUBLIC
"Arizona may be the land of
desert, horses and herds of cattle in most New Yorkers' imaginations.
There's madness in those dunes, however ... theatre dance that has all the
ragged, irrational reasonableness of life lived slightly below the polite
formalities..."
Jennifer Dunning, NEW YORK TIMES
"...dance as social criticism, a
rare and difficult performing arts form mastered in their final piece
whose object was woman's role in society"
Elke R. Eoerb, MARBACH ZEITUNG, Germany
"a mocking pastiche of bluesy,
demure and high falutin' dance style"
Lewis Segal, LA TIMES
"dance theatre which projects
itself beyond the traditional concepts of dance, combining movement with
poetry...thus it is an experimental and avant-garde group, and of course,
eminently American"
Tomas Ribas, A CAPITOL, Lisbon, Portugal
"who is the real Ann Ludwig and
why does she taunt me?"
Kenneth LaFave, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"the six member company is
technically strong, easy to watch and interesting ... you can't but to
like this company"
Veronique de Turrenne, THE PHOENIX GAZETTE
"imbued with a wacky spirit of
fun which made the graceful cum athletic movements an enjoyable experience"
Anne Price, BATON ROUGE MORNING ADVOCATE
"Looking at Ludwig's work is like
having American literature visually displayed before us ... a keen
observer of human behavior ... (one) who takes visual and sociological
risks in her choreography"