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"Berry is precisely the sort of promising young talent the city would be wise to entice ... Let's hope she keeps slugging away.  This is a dance maker whose intelligence and warm love for her art shine through in every endeavor."  -Sid Smith of the Chicago Tribune, June 2009, on You Can't Dance Out the Side of Your Mouth (read the full article here)

"As Berry moves a floor full of dancers around, her facility with logistical knots becomes clear.  ... Berry's movement turns halting signals of romantic interest, defensive sarcasm, and commitment anxiety into a language of love's gestures (the way you hold your knife, the way you sip your tea)."  -Zac Whittenburg, TimeOut Chicago, August 2010, on The Way We Danced 'Til Three

"Her work impressed me greatly when on display a while back ... Berry may well be a case study in emerging choreographers of our day in that she combines a bit of practicality with her artistic pursuit."  -Sid Smith for SeeChicagoDance.com, August 2010, on The Way We Danced 'Til Three

"In eight parts and about an hour long, YCDOTSOYM is a dance-show-as-mixtape, set to music by Yann Tiersen, Sigur Ros, Bach, and others.  It's also a scrapbook of sorts, collaging tap dance (in one shoe and two) with abstract comparisons and short interludes of recorded family chit-chat."  - TimeOut Chicago, November 2009

"She focuses on unfolding visual patterns, especially when working with larger groups - a kind of visual call-and-response for the audience."  -Northwestern University Press Release, November 2009

"A fresh face in the Chicago dance-scape." -TimeOut Chicago, May 2009


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