“She Persisted | Broken Wings - English National Ballet
Isolated and in pain, strapped to a hospital bed for months, Kahlo envisions herself, monobrow and all, in a parade of fantastical beings: as a deer, as a butterfly, as a man, as any number of exotic plants and flowers … It’s these flights of visual zaniness (design: Dieweke van Reij, drawing on Kahlo’s paintings) that ultimately make Broken Wings memorable.”

“Orphée et Eurydice - Nederlandse Reisopera
Hallucinatory stagings of Orphean operas have been done before: what makes this production extraordinary is its emotional punch and the breathtaking aesthetic with which it delivers it. Right from the start, when Eurydice drops dead at the wedding during a game of blind man’s buff, it grabs you by the throat and puts a lump in it that stays there until the end. Dieuweke van Reij’s undulating, stony set, lit by bold and beautiful lighting on a space-opening cyclorama, doubles as the physical world and Orpheus’ inner life.”