Featured Works and Press
Come When I Call You
Choreography: Leslie Wexler
Dancer: Amy Taravella
Photography: Kevin Knieriem
Come When I Call You
Choreography by Leslie Wexler
"one of the best anti-war statements in dance I have witnessed in my many years as a dance critic...set to music by the Klezmatics with lyrics by Woody Guthrie, (it) featured Taravella in a well-crafted movement journey that paralleled Guthrie's powerful and poetic lyrics. Taravella was on spot in intensity and emotion, dancing Wexler's expressive and gesture-laden contemporary choreography that revealed striking images of conflict at every turn."
- Steve Sucato
The Buffalo News, November 13, 2007
Rapid Motion Through Space Elates One
Dancers: (l to r)
Kim Knieriem, Jenna Delmonte, Kara Mann
Choreography: Leslie Wexler
Photography: Ann Peterson
Rapid Motion Through Space Elates One
Choreography by Leslie Wexler
"the program concluded with another Wexler gem...Seven dancers in a track meet of modern dance movement swirled and spun about the stage in interweaving and clever choreography that was like watching light dance on a pool of water. Full of energy and drive, the work's seven dancers gave a gutsy performance ending BCD's ...program on a high note."
- Steve Sucato
The Buffalo News, November 13, 2007
Mendelssohnia
Choreography by Leslie Wexler
"exhuded...an uncontainable joy and ferocity."
- Steve Sucato
The Buffalo News, May 5, 2006"an energizing piece...which proves the inspiring and athletic skill of these dancers."
- Cynnie Gaasch
Buffalo Rising Magazine, December, 2006
War and Peace
Choreography: Janet Reed
Dancer: Amy Taravella
Photography: Kevin Knieriem
War and Peace
Choreography by guest artist Janet Reed
"a mix of torment and sensuality that Taravella embodied marvelously via aggressive and expressionistic movements coupled with an alluring grace, giving one the sense of an inner emotional battle Taravella was waging."
- Steve Sucato
The Buffalo News, November 13, 2007
The End, from Rooms
Choreography by Anna Sokolow
"Amy Taravella demonstrated the economy of physical means with which intense emotion can be displayed..."
- Roslyn Sulcas
The New York Times, August 16, 2005
Performance with Amherst Saxophone Quartet
Choreography by Amy Taravella and
Leslie Wexler
"the ASQ, along with the dance company...did a splendid job of meshing the aural to the visual...various members of the dancing troupe flashed onto the stage in a series of smooth transitions as they morphed from solitary figures to groups and back again. The trio of supple dancers for Bach'sPrelude and Fugue in E minor, the lively quintet seen in Piazolla's Histoire du Tango and the colorful sextet of Blake's Charleston Rag..."
- Garaud McTaggart
The Buffalo News, November 17, 2000
Dark Wood
Choreography by Leslie Wexler
"a sharp urgency radiates through the piece...the trio plucked their feet as precisely as the violinists pluck their instruments, cutting dramatic silhouettes when they arched their backs and threw open their arms imploringly...Compelling."
- Nicole Peradotto
The Buffalo News, December 13, 1999
Gossamer
Choreography by Leslie Wexler
"Gossamer is a daydream and Taravella is just the dancer to inject it with the requisite lightness."
- Nicole Peradotto
The Buffalo News, December 13, 1999