More press for Jessica Fudim...
“CounterPULSE’s burlesque and circus party has become an end-of-the-year celebration of everything queer. CounterPULSE has always been a safe haven for the dance community’s risk-takers. With ‘Frolic’, they’ve created an event where committed artists don’t have to take themselves too seriously. Start with the best drag queens, add a little punk rock and a few experienced choreographers (Monique Jenkinson, Lauren Steiner and Jessica Fudim), and you just can’t lose. Now if only the rest of the year could be this much fun.”
—Joe Landini, Bay Area Reporter, December 2007
“…choreographer Jessica Fudim uses video to help tell the story, amplifying the experiences of the character onstage. In a memorable scene from, ‘Sheepish,’ her Little Bo Peep character bounds through 20-foot tall video grass. The choreography is both delightfully playful and consummately precise, timed with the video to give the audience the uncanny impression that we are plunging headlong through a field with the fairytale-sized Fudim.”
—Jessica Robinson, In Dance, July/August 2007
“In Fudim Locomotive Industries' Cave In Cave Out, a scruffy and absorbing ‘caveman cabaret,’ little distinguishes the desires of civilized society – so eloquently summed up in the leopard print-clad ensemble's rousing chorus of ‘I wanna make a lot of money; I wanna have a lot of sex’ – from our most primitive instincts. Performed with goofy humor and impeccable timing by choreographer Jessica Fudim and cast, the eclectic mixture of contemporary ballet, homespun rock music, and toilet humor makes us eloquently aware that we are all Neanderthals at heart.”
—Chloe Veltman, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 2003
“Dance theater may not have been spawned in the Bay Area but it continues its attraction for dance makers who take the freedom to combine movement with video, clowning, language, elaborate props and often a sense of humor, sometimes born out of desperation. A younger generation, some of them with pronounced predilection for pedestrian movements—Erika Shuch, Tanya Calamoneri, Jessica Fudim, Christy Funsch—are taking these options into yet unexplored directions.”
—Rita Felciano, Dance View West, 2003
—Joe Landini, Bay Area Reporter, December 2007
“…choreographer Jessica Fudim uses video to help tell the story, amplifying the experiences of the character onstage. In a memorable scene from, ‘Sheepish,’ her Little Bo Peep character bounds through 20-foot tall video grass. The choreography is both delightfully playful and consummately precise, timed with the video to give the audience the uncanny impression that we are plunging headlong through a field with the fairytale-sized Fudim.”
—Jessica Robinson, In Dance, July/August 2007
“In Fudim Locomotive Industries' Cave In Cave Out, a scruffy and absorbing ‘caveman cabaret,’ little distinguishes the desires of civilized society – so eloquently summed up in the leopard print-clad ensemble's rousing chorus of ‘I wanna make a lot of money; I wanna have a lot of sex’ – from our most primitive instincts. Performed with goofy humor and impeccable timing by choreographer Jessica Fudim and cast, the eclectic mixture of contemporary ballet, homespun rock music, and toilet humor makes us eloquently aware that we are all Neanderthals at heart.”
—Chloe Veltman, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 2003
“Dance theater may not have been spawned in the Bay Area but it continues its attraction for dance makers who take the freedom to combine movement with video, clowning, language, elaborate props and often a sense of humor, sometimes born out of desperation. A younger generation, some of them with pronounced predilection for pedestrian movements—Erika Shuch, Tanya Calamoneri, Jessica Fudim, Christy Funsch—are taking these options into yet unexplored directions.”
—Rita Felciano, Dance View West, 2003