PRAISE FOR SYBIL SHEARER

“This is Sybil’s way of getting ready – exercises in tension and release, balance and suspension – and they grow from the roots until the body flowers. Watching, I knew why she once changed a ballet in progress because a great storm had lashed and stripped her trees.”

“She penetrates to sources, which is a form of revelation. Possibly, no two who watch follow her to precisely the same places—it depends on where they have been before.”
- Claudia Cassidy-Chicago Tribune

“Indisputably one of the greatest dancers of all time – It is our good fortune that much of her work is currently available on film. Certainly her admirable example will long serve as a blazing torch to all for whom the art of dance is inseparable from the triple cause of poetry, love and freedom”
- John Martin-Emeritus New York Times

“The inspired oneiricism of her every muscle and nerve allows her with seeming effortlessness to transgress the bounds of the possible.”

“Out of the seething cauldron of gestures, she has brought forth endless images of magical transparence, golden with our wildest dreams.”

- Franklin Rosemont -Cultural Correspondence

“She has a special long term agreement with the air. She knows the rhythmic secrets of the wind and it lets her mingle between its molecules.”
- Linda Winer-Chicago Tribune

“Surprising explosions into kinetic comedy”

“One of the truly great dancers, choreographers, and dance innovators of our day. When she performed in New York, Miss Shearer would give a solo recital for an audience packed with so many dance celebrities that had the roof caved in there would have been no American dance the next day.’
- Walter Terry-Saturday Review

“Never one fearful of standing out or standing apart, Sybil was an artist of life as well as dance.”
- Joseph Houseal-Ballet Review“

“I have never seen any dancer who so connected earth and sky, ground and space.”
- Andrew Patner-WFMT