press
For Booking information please contact Alon Koresh, Executive Director
215-751-0959 | ak@koreshdance.org
Photos by Frank Bicking
COME TOGETHER DANCE FESTIVAL
“A rousing success.”
—The Dance Journal
“A great opportunity. I was inspired by other artists’ work.”
—Raphael Xavier, Festival choreographer
“We asked our region’s arts groups to help people experience art in new ways. The performing arts community has once again delivered.”
—Bill Mills, PNC regional president, Come Together 2014 sponsor
“Come Together Dance Festival takes the art to a whole new level.”
—Philadelphia Weekly
“Awesome Philly dance and some serious Philly flava.”
—The Dance Journal
“Making our town a mecca of significant DIY artistic accomplishment.”
—thINKingDANCE
ACCLAIMED ARTISTRY
“It’s all dance, and it’s all art.”
—Dance Magazine
“You know you’re seeing art when it has that kind of staying power.”
—Broad Street Review
“Those of us who critique the arts go wild with delight when an artist we’ve been watching for many years creates a work that transcends all he has done before.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
“The expression and performances proved fresh, urgent, and deeply persuasive.”
—LA Times
“Koresh’s style gives us hope…” —Broad Street Review
“Ronen Koresh’s most recent artistic triumph, La Danse.” —The Dance Journal
“A visceral, adrenaline-driven, and poignantly human body of work inspired by Henri Matisse’s paintings”
—The Dance Journal
koresh choreography
“Earthy, folk-dancey, emotionally direct, physically intense, and ostentatiously eccentric”
—The New Yorker
“The finale was typically turbocharged—because when the dust settles after a Koresh concert, you must leave bedazzled.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
“A wealth of forceful invention”
—Art Burst Miami
“The Company's vast repertoire of work ranges from intimate to high-voltage”
—Northwestern Press
“Athletic, exuberant, disciplined. Koresh has always been committed to dance that is accessible.”
—Cincinnati Enquirer
“Roni finds beauty in seeing the humanness in each dancer and letting the audience see who they are.”
—St. Louis Jewish Light
“Koresh brushes his La Danse … with rhythmic claps, stomps, and hops, adding rich variety to the movement.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
the experience
“Exalted, the audience rises to their feet, giving the company a thunderous ear-shattering standing ovation.”
—Dance Insider
“the most exciting dance experience I’ve ever seen in Philadelphia—and my life. … this, with its outstanding lighting and technically-honed music, was an experience I wholeheartedly advocate for anyone even slightly interested in dance.”
—Philadelphia Weekly
“the audience is captivated”
—Broad Street Review
“immediately … visually stunning but also sticks with you long after leaving the theatre”
– The Pointe
“The entire evening’s performance was dancing at its most profound. I can’t remember the last time a dance company drew tears from me; this one did, several times.”
– Reading Eagle
“With La Danse, Koresh reminds us that in the midst of death, we are in life and we are in love…”
— The Dance Journal
our dancers
“Technical knockouts! The Koresh Dance Company’s dancers displayed dazzling skill” and “instantly made clear their technical prowess in ... dance that engulfed the stage like brush fire.”
—Philadelphia Weekly
“The dancers of Koresh are technically superb, but even better, they are allowed to be individuals.”
—Dance Magazine
“excellent jet-propelled dancers”
—Broad Street Review
“the compressed push of muscle with the feeling of coiled springs just below the skin … an army of synchronized powerhouses”
—thINKingDANCE
“such verve and professionalism”
—Broad Street Review
“Renowned for their precision and their ability to do practically anything.”
—Reading Eagle