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SAFE HARBOR/CORK "A series of street based entertainments which culminated in a dance production at The Institute for Choreography and Dance at the Firkin Crane made Safe Harbour one of the most obvious community bonding elements in Cork's Midsummer Festival. An unusual fusion of procession, pageant and performance"(an) affirmation of this unique neighborhood." - The Irish Times
SAFE HARBOR-BROOKLYN,NEW YORK 1998
"Martha Bowers fell in love with the raw beauty of Brooklyn waterfront in Red Hook and responded by creating outdoor spectacles there. "Safe Harbor," is about immigration. But the actual theme is the area itself. There are strong visual images...imaginatively staged sideshows, charming tap and step-dance routines, stilt women, a jetty that suddenly sprouts eager arrivals to America and long row boats (that) hover in the twinkling night harbor." - THE NEW YORK TIMES "Safe Harbor ...dissolves the boundaries of conventional theater. As the performance unfolds in the real world, it incorporates landscape and horizon in unexpected and visually poetic ways. Some of the images it created, dancers writhing against a night sky or a candlelit boat floating on darkened water, linger in my mind like great shots in a film. A refreshingly unslick yet breathtaking production. - THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE
BLUE TRAIN-LINCOLN, NEBRASKA 1996
"A long, low train whistle blows in with the breeze to the third floor of the Wagon Train Project...actor Patrick Tuttle revisits the days of steam engines. Out in the hallway, Park Middle School students keep rhythm with a pair of New York City dancers. Downstairs Annette Murrell belts out a bluesy tune and members of the Native American Rough Riders beat a communal drum, This is Blue Train in the making." - THE LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR
ON THE WATERFRONT-BROOKLYN,NEW YORK 1993
"...in the streets of Red Hook, a harborside community where you glimpse the Statue of Liberty from the end of every block, choreographer Martha Bowers went to work in PS 15 and other neighborhood institutions. The fruits of her labors, in collaboration with dozens of artists (musicians, dancers, amateurs and professionals, local and outsiders, kids and the elderly), kept bringing me to the edge of tears. On the Waterfront was arte povera, made of the simplest materials, using the heroic scale and architecture of the empty industrial spaces to shelter visions of the past and articulate the present." - THE VILLAGE VOICE
ROOT AND BRANCH (father and son project) 1989-93
"Martha Bowers, who directs a group called Dance/Theatre/Etcetera, blurred the distinctions between art and reality... ROOT AND BRANCH was both a charming display of parental and filial affection and a tribute to parks as social centers." - THE NEW YORK TIMES
"ROOT AND BRANCH was a special performance project for fathers and sons...how heartening to realize that filial and parental zeal still exist in this cynical old world of ours. How inspiring to see some positive action for a change." - BACKSTAGE
ABOUT COMPANY REPERTORY
"Martha Bowers is a great storyteller (who) charmed, delighted and intrigued." - THE PHOENIX
"Bowers invests her work with an intellectual, yet always intriguing, sensibility..." - PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE
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