What critics say about Frida A Dance Drama


"It was a memorable telling of a life; a moving homage to a fascinating woman and artist. Licia Perea revealed not only that she is a gifted choreographer and dancer, but a producer and director of philosophical and dramatic scope."

"The unity of concept in the collaboration of music, visual design, drama and dance in Act II brought the audience to its feet with applause."

Noyer
ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL, Albuquerque, New Mexico

"As a choreographer and dancer, Perea is equally multilingual, using Spanish dance vocabulary (including an angry zapateado on a chair) with the same ease as modern."

"At her best, as in The Broken Column, she was heartbreaking as her bound and crippled body attempted to crawl out of its confinement."

Felciano
SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, San Franscico, CA

"...creating gestural patterns and gut wrenching movement...Perea wore a man’s suit, shed her hair and skulked like a male tango dancer — a witty image for Kahlo’s sense of liberation... Broken Column, a spastic yet lyrical dance very much in the spirit of the Kahlo self-portrait..."

Welsh
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, San Diego, CA

"...highly emotional and physically powerful dance."

Marro
THE TELESCOPE, Escondido, CA

© 2001 Licia Perea