"Lynn Marie Ruse and Lynn Brown make piercing, passionate dances."
—Village Voice
"It pulled the viewer into a multi-dimensional realm of dreams, fairy tales, subconscious realizations."
—The Washington Square News
"Lynn Marie Ruse and Lynn Brown have a knack for sculpting grace, strength and beauty."
—The Tampa Tribune
"There were several premieres up on the roof, but one stood out above the rest. FREEFALL(ltd)'s it would still be true is a dance that was physically, rather then emotionally, dramatic... The combination of repetition, energy, music and use of space combined to make a stunning piece."
—New York's Show Business
"Like all good choreography the piece succeeds on the basis of what cannot be said. Its sultry mood and the mounting emotional tension are somehow enveloped in a suggestively larger package of decadence and dystopia."
—Canada's National Post
"The New York-based troupe follows in the absurdist footsteps of Samuel Beckett and Kurt Weill by employing a menacing vaudevillian style (complete with a glittery gold curtain out of a game show) to remind us how human beings continue to repeat the same misguided errors in the arenas of war, justice and love. Yet the company's style is not antagonist. It's urgent in a rambunctious-sad way. And the performers are lovely and engaging even as frightening truths brew underneath."
—Chicago Tribune
"The peak of my wide-ranging Fringe this year was an hour of dance drama...The Tracking of Expectations presents four Manhattan-based performers in a suite of extravagantly, outrageously physical pas-de-deux about bonding."
—The Toronto Sun
"...can make heavy statements with a subtle touch and handles serious issues without losing sight of their inherent humor."
—Tampa's Weekly Planet
"In it's embrace of a multimedia dance aesthetic, the four pieces on this 55-minute program have a gritty realism that emerges out of a movement vocabulary of kamikaze falls, beer guzzling and tentative waltzes. The performers led by artistic directors Lynn Marie Ruse and Lynn Brown speak, dance and gesticulate with commitment and abandon."
—Toronto's Globe and Mail
"...an accomplished duet, a short piece about love--clever, aggressive, and as full-bodied as its duo—makes you cry, 'Why, yes!'...
—Village Voice
"Choreographers Lynn Brown and Lynn Marie Ruse show deft touches of humor throughout, which the dancers enlivened with their suppleness and physical wit."
—offoff online
"...smart, creepy Clever Hans, based on a Grimm fairy tale and a Brechtian twist..."
—Village Voice
"Their choreographic sensibility is intriguingly offbeat and their onstage personas engaging... Brown and Ruse never resort to pantomime only subtly emphasizing cruel headholds and gestures that cover the face as they slide and twine over the floor together in eternal companionship."
—Village Voice
"An extremely engaging performance of Stravinsky's Pergolesi-based ballet, Pulcinella..."
—The Wall Street Journal
"Emotional weight may be an understatement"
—The Tampa Tribune
"Choreographers Lynn Brown and Lynn Marie Ruse show deft touches of humor throughout..."
