Company: Spring 2011 Reviews

Few site-specific works I’ve seen have achieved the power of Ruddy’s Montage. She and her design team (which also included Peter Jakubowski’s lighting and Ellen Fishman-Johnson’s videos) perfectly integrated and executed the concept from top to bottom. Every element of the piece aligned with the location to create a singular aesthetic sense for the evening.
-Jim Rutter for Broad Street Review (4.26.11)
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At the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Jeanne Ruddy’s highly interactive collaboration with her artist Elizabeth Osborne – kept audiences moving up and down the modern gallery and happily.
-Lesley Valdes (4.18.11)
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. . . this first ever site-specific piece allowed the inherent richness of multi-disciplinary contributing elements to support the grace and purity of design and connectedness of musical, visual, dance, and lighting textures throughout.
-Kristin Narcowich for The Dance Journal (4.17.11)
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. . . JRD swept our minds and bodies away that evening to an oft unvisited place, one of color, tender music and motion that could soothe the heart of any hardened critic. My hat goes off the JRD and the movable World Premiere of Montage a Trois.
-Aaron Stella for Philly Broadcaster (4.17.11)
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MonTage à Trois: Dancers give motion to other arts
Jeanne Ruddy Dance . . . set paintings in motion in MonTage à Trois . . . They became paint, painters, and paintings.
-Ellen Dunkel for The Inquirer (4.19.11)
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"Our Greenfield students just returned from seeing JRD at PAFA. They were ALL SMILES and RAVING about the performance! I could tell they had a great time by the smiles and the bounce in their walk! The dancers must have really engaged them. The teachers said it was one of the best school trips they had ever been on. Several boys mentioned that they loved the part on the steps."
-Wendy Gosfield (4.14.11)