"Fiendishly Inventive" - The New Yorker
"Bright and Brash" - The New York Times
"Fantastic, funny movers whose work stands the test of time" - Philadelphia City Paper
- "Headlong is clearly not your typical dance company, with dances in keeping with the troupe's motto that intelligent experimentation can be compelling and in some cases, hilarious..." [More]
New York Times
- "Headlong Dance Theater puts on a super show..." [More]
The Houston Chronicle
- "Amy Smith, Andrew Simonet, and David Brick make some of the most affecting dances around..." [More]
The Village Voice
- "Comtemporary subject matter delivered on a skateboard, not a soapbox..." [More]
Philadelphia Weekly
- "We are left in the magical world of the extraordinary and of pure, delicious movement." [More]
Broad Street Review
- "I found that with time, MORE stayed with me, the images loosening into a contemporary archetype that I recognized not so much with the mind but with the consciousness." [More]
The Austin Chronicle
- "Explanatorium includes the most beautiful dancing moments I've seen from Headlong." [More]
Philadelphia Inquirer
- "Like the ringing in your ears after a rock concert, Cell stays with you, pulsing just below the surface of things." [More]
New Haven Independent
- "CELL is unlike and Arts & Ideas performance you've ever been to; heck, it's unlike anything you've ever done in your life." [More]
New Haven Register
- "CELL proposed a bigger idea than self-ralization or enrichment. It projected the participants into a much bigger framework, a global universe in fact, one that's highly ambiguous in its demands." [More]
Hudson Review (downloadable PDF)
- "Capering across cobblestones, whirling down a street in a wheeled office chair and swinging around a lamppost are not for everyone." [More]
New York Times
- "Quite possibly the most original work in the [Live Arts] festival's 10-year history…" [More]
Philadelphia Weekly
- NPR's Weekend America, Sept. 2006 - MP3 (09:01, 10.3 MB)
- WHYY Preview, Sept. 2006 - MP3 (01:16, 1.46 MB)
- "…the imagery is striking and unforgettable, and eventually that absurdist text brilliantly finds its context." [More]
Boston Globe
- "Many makers of dance theater err on the side of murky ambiguity. Not Headlong." [More]
Philadelphia Inquirer
- "Mixed Tape" represents what Headlong dashes off with effortless ease: structurally succinct, occasionally funny dances.." [More]
New York Times
- "Appealing sense of humor..." [More]
Philadelphia Weekly
- "But, ahh, we are saved because these Headlong folk, they're smart..." [More]
The Dance Insider
"Britney's Inferno comes across as a bizarre sequel to 'Revenge of the Nerds' as if performed by the cast of Fellini's 'Satyricon'..." - The New Yorker
- "Terrifcally clever..." [More]
The Village Voice
- "Headlong Dance Theater tears apart an icon in 'Britney's Inferno'..." [More]
Time Out New York
- "For Headlong, Spears is a pure product too tempting not to use in a conceptual piece about celebrity, identity, and manufactured consumer need. That may sound like a drag - but trust me, it's not!..." [More]
Philadelphia Inquirer
Headlong talks about Britney's Inferno on the radio!
- "Postively Polished..." [More]
Philadelphia Inquirer
- "Irrepressible and wildly watchable..." [More]
Philadelphia City Paper
- "How do you choreograph fear? Headlong Dance Theater answers the question..." [More]
Philadelphia City Paper
- "Clever and Charming..." [More]
The Village Voice
- "Headlong's brand of dance theater is meant for the masses... appealing to both the dance scene novice and the weary dance patron..." [More]
Show Business
- "In Headlong's 'Ulysses' all's a blooming, buzzing profusion-of consciousness, of understanding, of meaning..." [More]
Philadelphia Inquirer
- "Headlong pretty much owns the hip, smart-alecky choreography concession in this town..." [More]
Philadelphia Inquirer
- "Nothing short of remarkable..." [More]
Time Out New York