Dialogos
is a performance event filled with collaboration and the sharing of multiple art forms...film clips are interspersed with the live voice of Marta Santa Maria and percussionist Fernando Diez ...Showing the depth of creativity from Rosa Negra Flamenco's Deborah Greenfield...standout pieces included Greenfield's "Respirame (Breathe Me)", which coupled the movement of 3 flamenco dancers with the backdrop of film imagery. Marta Santa Maria's lovely voice centered the audience and dancers into magical unity with one another.
DANCE CHANNEL TV - Anna Lux
Besides interactions between live dancers and projections, "Caught Between" offered conventional screenings of dance films, none more potent than "Madrugada", in which Deborah Greenfield and William Morrison evoked the primal force of flamenco by fusing Greenfield's dancing with the parched vistas of Death Valley. LOS ANGELES TIMES- Lewis Segal
I had the good fortune to see The Rosa Negra Flamenco Dance Company's performance at the Unknown Theater in Los Angeles. It doesn't fit in any category. It is modern composition and themes, but the vocabulary is flamenco making the work doubly dramatic and powerful. It is mesmerizing, provocative, fresh.... Whitney Trilling, Dance Agent and Former Choreographer, Producer,
FUEGO QUIETO is intelligent, beautiful to watch, perfectly controlled and devised by the extremely gifted anglo-american Deborah Greenfield. LIBÉRATION (France)
...one of the most exciting presentations of the BALANCE THEATRE FESTIVAL...a very original, passionate and ironic corporal language, which filled the music with new content and which is why FUGA legitimately received frenetic applause. HINTERLANDER ANZEIGER (Germany)
...thrilling could be used to describe Thursday's NEW MOVES FESTIVAL offering, NEGANDO LA NADA (Denying the Void), performed by a young female Spanish company. Mozart's Requiem soaring in the background was just the half of it..speed jostled with the unmovable, runners became hobblers, gracefullness framed angularity...humour and pathos were wrapped together in the unexpected...Deborah Greenfield's choreography creates picture after picture.
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
...and suddenly there is Flamenco; a conjuring up of images that range from the provocative to the caged...FUEGO QUIETO s a marvelously atmospheric piece, cleverly exploiting existing modes even as it evolves its own choreographic vocabulary...NEGANDO LA NADA...a deliciously humourous piece, it rubs seriousness against incongruity but always with poise and aplomo. THE HERALD (Scotland)
FUGA [dancers] took flamenco into their own bodies and then danced it out again in such a way as to highlight parochial mores about female identity - a lovely crossover of traditional and new dance, so astute, so entertaining, so wisely gauged.
DANCE THEATRE JOURNAL (UK)
BENEATH THE WEIGHT OF WATERS did justice to the nature and expression of Shoshtakovitch's string quartet no.8. "moments from feminine experience - loneliness, turbulence and sensuality" were transformed by Deborah Greenfield into music. The three female dancers and the sometimes very voluptuous movement offer a direct response to the developments of the music. DORTMUNDER ZEITUNG (Germany)
