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PRESS REVIEWS TrAPPED: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Glacier:
"...what amazes as always is the stunning visual effect of von Stockert and her cast’s wit and imagination...it makes audiences think." Marjorie’s World Unhinged: "…this marvellous blend of dance and theatre, for seven performers, film and a mechanical furry dog, is closely, hilariously, observed, and touchingly aware of the sorrows of existence."Manchester Evening News, January 2007 "Speech in dance theatre is hard to pull off. Von Stockert's scripts are witty and well-focused ... there's something distinctive about Von Stockert's work, an individual outlook, its own particular atmosphere." Independent, November 2006 More Grim[m] Desires: “…The German-born choreographer has taken four Grimm tales … mixed in a little Charles Perrault …, and created a dance-theatre show which is both funny and disturbing. … Cleverly segueing between stories … von Stockert’s use of props and set is also ingenuous. Von Stockert has a deliciously skewed way of looking at the world, changing bedtime stories into vignettes of wit and brutality.”Kelly Apter, The Scotsman, 19 April 2005 Click here to read more…pdf document “…There are so many amazing visual moments, such
witty props and humorous touches that it’s easy to take
the choreography for granted. It is full of marvellous invention,
mostly frisky and physically daring, but also as, when Snow White
duets with Bluebeard, sensual and surprisingly poignant.” “The prospect of an evening of fairy stories wasn’t
enthralling, but that was before I knew about Maresa von Stockert,
whose More Grim[m] Desires is a touring version of the site-specific
show that was last year’s hit at Wapping Hydraulic Power
Station. The first thing to know about Stockert is that she’s
not afraid of narrative…” “…It is highly enjoyable to try and follow the cleverly
constructed story’s little twists and turns… Maresa
von Stockert pondering on desires has gone beyond the boy-loves-girl
dimension, …. She has emphasised other kinds of desire in
the Grimm tales … It is a nod and a wink to all of us when
Cinderella’s prince during his long search for the girl
to fit the silver slipper, forgets the object of his search and
becomes absorbed in shoes of all shapes and sizes…” Grim[m] Desires: “… the German-born, British based dance-maker has gone beyond the mere interpretation of individual stories. She has taken five familiar tales and woven them into a single, connected narrative which unfolds so cleverly and with such dry humour that it presents one of the most engaging contemporary dance events of the year…”Debra Craine, The Times, 18 September 2004 Click here to read more…pdf document “… Von Stockert’s vigorous, quirkily detailed
choreography bounces off the back of Russell Raisey’s drily
witty voice-over narration. She also uses props … brilliantly.
This is work of magical intelligence with a grisly kick. Go be
entranced.” “…Maresa von Stockert, a London-based German choreographer,
has spun five fairy tales into Grim[m] Desires, a witchy piece
of theatre, powerfully attuned to the building's atmosphere, demanding
great daring from six dancers, and with an amusing and often barbaric
wit about the stories. … “ “Von Stockert teases out the twisted psychological subtexts
of each original Grimm's fairy-tale with an uncanny synthesis
of wit, humor and irony. … The movement is gaspingly daring,
violent at times, gestural, highly expressive and erotic. …
Each story leaves us with unforgettably disturbing images, body
parts, movement or props. … For me, and for many others,
"Grim[m] Desires" was the dance performance of the year.
…” “Were fairy tales always this twisted and macabre? …
The movement itself is haunting and lyrical with some robust duet
work. … A feeling of abandonment and dereliction prevails
and there is something of an Escher influence in the surreal landscape
of people running at right angles to the floor and cups and saucers
sitting sideways on the wall…” “…Von Stockert has cleverly morphed these stories
together to make a strong narrative, a dance piece for a company
of six, with the space itself as a seventh character, its walls
serving as a springboard as often as its floor. … “ “… Von Stockert is an original…” “…Unforgettable.” Polystyrene Dreams created for Phoenix Dance Theatre “jokey and wonderfully timed, with robotic workers in a surreal toy factory wheeling in on office chairs to the strains of Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra . …Teeming with inventive gestures and moves …… Sheer genius.” Stephanie Furgeson, Yorkshire Post, 20 Feb 2004 Click here to read more…pdf document “… The final piece was ‘polystyrene dreams’
by Maresa von Stockert, who introduces us to an Orwellian factory
from hell where the workers on Level 5 are welcomed, exhorted,
chastised and threatened by a ‘Big Sister’ tannoy
as they make toy cars in the morning and crawling babies in the
afternoon. … “… Maresa von Stockert’s Polystyrene Dreams
makes a hugely entertaining conclusion. This is a glorious piece
of theatre in which workers on a toy doll assembly line indulge
in escapist fantasy. They play dodgems on their chairs, wrap and
box Douglas Thorpe as if he were a doll and leave the stage littered
with torn polystyrene. The ‘assembling’ movements
are sublimely witty and the sense of release is so infectious.” To read German reviews of polystyrene dreams performances in Germany please click here… StuttgarterZeitung, leonbergerPage1, leonbergerPage2, Neuss-GrevenbroicherPage1, Neuss-GrevenbroicherPage2 Nightmares in Black & Green A second fun piece was Maresa von Stockert’s “Nightmares in Black and Green”. Afterwards I was amazed to realise that it lasted as long as 25 minutes, so packed is it with good jokes and intriguing movement. Constructing a story around suburban life, apples, a failed relationship and a blow-up sex doll is tough enough, but von Stockert combines this heady mix with a voice-over narrative, often a kiss-of-death for dance, and makes it all work. Roberta Pitrè’s solo on top of a kitchen table is full of invention and Antoine Vereecken’s duet with the doll is beautiful rather than merely comic.Stuart Sweeney, Ballet-Dance Magazine, March 2004 Click here to read more…pdf document The work … features two dancers (Francisco Monteagudo and
Roberta Pitre) performing with a table, some roses, a blow up
doll, lot's of apples and the funniest dead pan spoken text you
have ever heard (spoken by Russell Raisey). …
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