UNVARNISHED AMERICA (2019)

“Jane Comfort and Company’s 40th Anniversary Retrospective demonstrated how the choreographer’s work engages with audiences, while proving its wide-range and resistance to definition.”

“Few choreographers approach such hot subjects with Comfort’s imaginative juxtapositions, an unflinching gaze, and a pungent sense of humor.”

“As relevant as ever, S/He recasts the genders and races of the protagonists and antagonists of Anita Hill’s testimony during Clarence Thomas’ confirmation hearings. The brutal interrogation of Hill (Sean Donovan, who ends naked in a pile of pale limbs and crushed objectives) by Black women playing white male senators seems even more harrowing in the deluge of #MeToo stories.”

“The guiding spirits behind the theater of mixed forms are often choreographers. Theatrical directors may not be able to choreograph, but a dance-trained artist is used to conceiving the integration of movement with rhythm: the rhythm of music and even words, spoken or sung. That is what Jane Comfort, one of the most fertile minds in this genre, has realized so effectively.”

“Few of Comfort’s peers who are into dance drama have her gift for melding singing, vocalizing, speech and movement into an inseparable whole…Words, music and movement seethe together; united, their rhythms whirl the morsels of meaning into life stories.”

"S/HE gleefully clashes stereotypes and the resulting dissonance is as exciting as it is disturbing. Jane Comfort's vision is Madison Avenue's nightmare."

“An American Rendition is dark, biting satire of the ilk that's so brilliantly constructed that it makes you laugh out loud while feeling almost sick inside as you gradually realize the true horror of what you're laughing at."