“Eye-catching imagery abounded in Ballets with a Twist...witty and fantastic."
Jack Anderson
THE NEW YORK TIMES

 

“Klaus' Return to Normalcy was over in a flash it seemed; I could easily have watched it for twice or three times as long....Like Twyla Tharp's wonderfully convoluted madcap pieces for the Joffrey and ABT...it seems to be operating on a dozen levels at once....It was wonderful.”
Robb Baker
DANCE MAGAZINE

 


“Marilyn Klaus is impressed by the dance manners of other times, whether those of the ballrooms of the 1930's, the American Bandstand years of the 50's or the conventions of classical ballet. She is a likeable performer, with the lean, coiled attack of a good jazz dancer.”
Jennifer Dunning
THE NEW YORK TIMES


“...lovely and distantly bitter comment...sleek and sweeping....It was the sort of dry spoof that doesn't need to bother with jokes.”
Burt Supree
THE VILLAGE VOICE

 


“...agreeable, charming, and amusing...unpredictable, unpretentious, and economical....Holding Out for Romance... used tap, ballet, jazz dancing, and what the program referred to as ‘bump, bounce, and boogie’....Klaus entered the world ...of 60's and 70's pop dance, inhabited those worlds and made her own statement using these popular dance vocabularies. Klaus likes sustained movement in her work: at the center of the stage, someone is always dancing from start to finish.”
Amanda Smith
DANCE MAGAZINE


“Klaus has a distinctive notion of the expressive possibilities of ballet...she makes a succession of steps into a succession of emotions.”
Stephanie Woodard
NEW DANCE, Britain


“Auch! Die Ballerina tanzt Rock 'n' Roll. Marilyn Klaus has composed an effective mixture of different styles...

a real feast for the eyes.”
Birgit Adler
MAINZER RHEIN-ZEITUNG, Germany


“Short, whirling, witty and mad. A flippant intoxication, a topsy-turvy sequence of haunting images.”
Elisabeth Lokai-Fels
BONNER RUNDSCHAU, Germany