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| REVIEWS & AUDIENCE FEEDBACK: SEE FULL SLIDESHOW SEE VIDEOS 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 was magical and centered the audience and dancers into magical unity with one another. DANCE CHANNEL TV - Anna Lux ~ Deborah Greenfield´s artistic maturity and the conception of Diálogos, filled the theater with flamenco accents of alegrias, marinete and tangos. This program...took us into a world of different perceptions and fusion...The sober setting surrounded the dancers with a rarified atmosphere, using only the excellent lighting design and a large projection screen to achieve the desired result... | PHOTOS BY ASSAF STOLER | |
| (In) Greenfield´s Respirame...the dancers were supported by the backdrop of an adept video projection and accompanied by music made of rhythmic vocalizations, which cleverly maintained tension and suspense for the audience. Here an interesting dialogue developed between the artist's intention and the spectator...The close of the first act found force again with Greenfield's Code Pink, which deserves mention. Deborah showed an intellectual acuteness in her choreographic creation and the projected animation that preceded it, where two flamingos appear, full of life, only later to drown in the environmental contamination that we humans cause. This was a sympathetic piece, dedicated to a women's group of peace activists. The best followed, with an impressive entrance of dancers to a martinete rhythm and, dressed resplendently in pink, maintaining a continuity with the animation's flamingo puppets. Accompanied by singer Marta Santa Maria's pained verses and Fernando Diez's percussion, it was spectacular. Meanwhile, the intricacy of the rhythmic work and choreographed handclapping was truly to be appreciated. In the second part of the evening...Fernando Diez, in his Percussion Solo, made a remarkable foray into challenging rhythms, startling the audience once again. The maturity, complexity and ecstatic joy of Diez's performance was a show unto itself...Finally, Rapatangos a poetic reiteration of Santa Maria's nostalgia for her hometown of Sevilla, was explosive and inspirational, not the least of which was the force of Greenfield's choreography. Although this number was not yet quite the end of the show, it gave the finishing touch to Diálogos. Full review at EspacioAlternativo.com - Claudia de la Cruz ~ Choreographer Deborah Greenfield has the gift of true artistic fusion. Her modern dance background woven with the fibers of her deeply embedded study of classical flamenco, visually enhanced by exceptional film /video concepts has given this forward thinking choreographer the ability to create a fabulous hybrid of idioms that works! Saturday October 14, 2006, Unknown Theatre in Hollywood California became a venue fired up with visceral heat. Enhanced by the closeness of Unknown's space the choreography created by Greenfield gave the audience reason to sweat. Performed by dancers, Deborah Greenfield, Batista Gremaud, Vera Ninkovic, baked up by power house singer Marta Santa Maria and very apt percussionist Frendando Diez, the work Greenfield created crossed the paths of the heart and pumped up the volume. Intricate foot work, strong body lines, complex patterns, evocative film work and in the moment performances by all took the viewer to intimate places: a woman's own breath of life, female fight for a view of peace, a chance encounter with a man, the roles of mother and daughters, and cultural nostalgia. This is by far some of the best work yet by Deborah Greenfield,look for more in future! Jamie Nichols, Dancer/Choreographer ~ I had the good fortune to see The Rosa Negra Flamenco Dance Company's performance at the Unknown Theater in Los Angeles and was impressed with your choreography. 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 and sometimes fun; flamingos doing modern in flamenco. I hope to see more of you on the national stage. Your work warrants being seen on a large scale. Whitney Trilling, Dance Agent and Former Choreographer, Producer, ~ I loved the breathing stage in Respirame - it was incredible!!! Something totally new and inventive and expressive. I felt as if I was inside a living body, or the stage itself was a human body or alive. Phenomenal!! These are important artistic works you are creating- riveting and meaningful and perfected. Joan Mcglauglin - Dance Educator ~From what I understand, Dialogos was not reviewed. This was very unfortunate. I am not a dance critic but wanted to let you know that your work richly deserved to be viewed and appreciated IN PRINT and potentially viewed by even more in our community. I hope that your next project receives it's due. So, what follows is my own appreciation... Stunning, inventive, and satisfying are the immediate words that come to mind upon viewing Deborah Greenfield's recent concert held at the Unknown Theatre this fall. Moving beyond the classical technique and investigating it's creative potential requires both an artist's curiousity and absolute mastery of one's dance form which you displayed in equal measure. The integration of both traditional and non-traditional elements kept one's attention and reinforced the power and raw appeal of Flamenco which I have always found so mesmerizing. Your fellow dancers did a beautiful job and both the soloist and the musician (WOW) were wonderful. The stage was alive! I do want to say that your performance was riveting. The clarity and intensity you bring to your dancing is so refreshing because in that moment, there is such focus and centered presence, we feel the dance and we see the human being. Diana Cummins, Artist ~ I had the great pleasure, recently, to view an exciting concert of the Rosa Negra Flamenco program “Dialogos”. These experimental flamenco works by choreographer Deborah Greenfield were fascinating and rich in creativity. Combining modern and traditional flamenco movement and using film and animation projections, Ms. Greenfield created multi layers of conceptual work that were powerful and intriguing. Ms. Greenfield’s powerful dancing, along with the superb dancing of Batista Gremaud and Vera Ninkovic, exciting singing of Marta Santa Maria and electrifying percussion by Fernando Diez brought to life the innovative work of this company. I look forward to seeing new work by Rosa Negra Flamenco. Carla Luna, Dancer/Choreographer, Director of Dance Arts Academy ~ I was blown away by the performance. Beautiful! Anedra Shockley - Political Activist/Code Pink organizer - LA ~ Congratulations on some beautiful choreography, ideas and dancing...You stayed faithful to the technique and style of Flamenco but broadened it by incorporating contemporary dance moves, mime and contact release. As a performer, you, Deborah, stand out - not only are you precise and an accomplished dancer, you convey a quiet intensity and quirky charisma. You were accompanied by terrific dancers and a singer whose voice made me shiver and smile all at once. Maire Clerkin, Irish Dancer/Choreographer ~ It has become increasingly impossible for the non-established or up and coming artist to be allowed to voice their vision. It seems the public has been mediatized into expecting over-produced and over-priced extravaganzas as standard bill of fare. Yet at the outer edges and fringe there are those who still carry the torch, those who have been touched by truth and in turn, must without doubt or hesitation process and create, share this vision. Tradition and culture go hand and hand, especially when one talks of the Flamenco and all that it represents. The sounds and images of hands and feet, smoldering passions stylized into a universally accepted language of movement and shadows, pulsating counter rhythms, and syncopated poly rhythms. At the other end of the spectrum Modern Dance remains popular in its academic stronghold and in the professional world; the Paul Taylor's, Alvin Aileys, Maggie Marins, Pina Bausch's...where classical, jazz,and Modern co-mingle in ever changing montages of movement and images. Every once in a while a new voice is heard, a faint whisper off the desert floor on the winds of creation calls like the sirens of Ulysees ...hey we're here... we're something new...something different... ROSA NEGRA FLAMENCO ...from Deborah Greenfield offers the heart and soul of Modern and Flamenco in new and exciting images and sounds, a vision true to the nature of Dance and what it can do to enhance the Human Condition. The company...presented their works in a show entitled "DIALOGOS" to standing room only audiences. "DIALOGOS" fulfilled the task at hand by bringing a new vitality, power, image and vision to the stage...one that was sorely needed...and immensely appreciated by all who attended. Pasquale Moscatello - film & theater writer/director | ||
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| On Madrugada, the short film: 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 On the multimedia performance - COLA presentation, June 29, 2004: ~ I want to congratulate you on your production last night. It was absolutely fabulous!!! I got chills so many times. Unusual/totally innovative/ groundbreaking stuff!!! Just spectacular! Congrats again. Patrice Cantarelli, former Joffrey Ballet dancer ~ What a beautiful show! The visual images were amazing- especially loved the costumes. And your dancing was mesmerizing. Marnie Mossiman, director of the Hollywood Bowl Summersounds program ~ Congratulations on a superb, memorable, and mesmerizing production! The costumes were simply gorgeous, and your conception and execution so thought-provoking. I LOVED how you integrated the old film into the live action, reflectively. Fantastic to see your work. Please let me know when you have performances coming up. Anne LeBaron - modern modern music composer From people on our mailing list: ~ Thank you so much for your performance of Madrugada. I was so moved. The dancing, acting, costumes, it was superb. Please be sure to invite me to any future performances. ~ I greatly enjoyed the mesmerizing performance of MADRUGADA at the Barnsdall Art Park this weekend. Your COLA fellowship was well deserved. Please keep me informed of any upcoming performances. ~ My friends and I enjoyed your performance very much and thought it was very powerful. Loved the visuals, story line and the live music. My complements to you and all the fellow artist in the performance! Thanks again for keeping me on your mailing list. | ||
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| Deborah founded the modern dance company, FUGA, after her piece, Fuego Quieto (Still Fire) won 1st Prize at the V Madrid International Choreography Competition in 1991. FUGA appeared at Seville's WORLD EXPO'92 and toured Europe's festival circuit to much critical acclaim from 1991 to 1994. |  FUEGO QUIETO - FUGA Dance Co. | |
 FUEGO QUIETO - FUGA Dance Co. |
Deborah Greenfield had with FUEGO QUIETO one of the most beautiful choreographies of this GRONINGEN INTERNATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHY COMPETITION. HET NIEUSBLAD (Holland) FUEGO QUIETO WON FIRST PRIZE AT THE MADRID INTERNATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHY COMPETITION 1991 | |
| 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) |
 
NEGANDO LA NADA (Denying the Void) FUGA Dance Co. | |
| 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 FUGA Dance Co. |
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) | |
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DRUMS IN THE NIGHT - Wolfskill Theatre: ...masterful staging is meticulously choreographed, blending vaudeville with performance art stylings. LA WEEKLY LOVE COUNCIL - Odyssey Theatre Ensemble: ...some astonishing choreography by Deborah Greenfield (especially in the central orgy sequence and the scene in Hell, the latter seeming to come right out of Hieronymous Bosch). DRAMA-LOGUE (LA) |
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MATTHEW & THE POPE'S HAT Glaxa Theatre: There are many inspired moments in direction, choreography & sound design...movements, choreographed well with lighting, hypnotize ...choreographer Deborah Greenfield's pieces often work hand-in-hand with the sound, lighting and music. DAILY VARIETY (LA) |
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| CANTOS DE PRIMAVERA E INVIERNO (Songs of Spring and Winter) is an exciting combination of Flamenco and Contemporary Dance which draws on the life and work of the Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca...Deborah Greenfield and Daniela Loretz, both excellent...respectively play Death and the Moon...Performed on a bare stage, this is a most impressive performance which completely captures a most enthusiastic audience. THE STAGE (UK) |
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