“Overground – an entertaining thought provoking company that will leave you pondering, and yes, bee-dazzled..”
— Linda Stasi, Daily News, NY
“Mesmerizing, futuristic avant-garde dance”
— Carlie Petesh – Village Voice, NY
…A magnificent show, deserving so many compliments. A deeply moving organic fusion of text and movement that flowed like a current of consciousness. Striking choreography – urgent and imaginative. Every actor – a wholesome galaxy in a universe, every costume distinctly unique, yet a membrane of blood memory. The acting, music dancing blended organically…Brilliant, tantalizing and witty text. Hypnotic soundscapes, mesmerizing visuals. Kept me on my toes…The trick of pulsating between film, dance and theatre was iconoclast, revolutionary…”
— David Lipfert – Attitude Magazine
“World Class show – a multi-cultural tapestry of human memory stretching from the personal to the social, from the communal to the global, from the evolutionary to the universal. Whimsical, funny, witty and brilliantly written…mesmerizing performance, arresting visuals and haunting choreography – a show that will travel the world…”
— Lisa Sharkey – Creative Director & Editor of Harper Collins
“I can’t stop thinking about the profundity of the words in Ecocentric and the impact they made on me. Three days after I catch myself remembering whole phrases from the show, I am haunted.”
— Linda Stasi, NY Post
“Intentional humor, mystifying…mystical”
— New Yorker
“Poignant… exuding an emotional intensity of whimsical verbal acrobatics and swirling mobility and vitality of dancer’s bodies…original compelling vignettes and revelations”
— Inside New York
“Hybrid presentation of dance, theatre, opera and visual arts”
— Time Out, NY
“Multi-disciplinary work of urban Zen experiences”
— NY Post
“Futuristic avant-garde dance”
— Village Voice, NY
“Poignant… evocative text…arresting choreography”
— Eye on Dance, NY
“Overground Physical Theatre Company” has received international critical acclaim by offering the NY theatre and dance scene the richness of Bulgarian art and culture for more than 7 years, staging and producing unparalleled multidisciplinary performance art that has contributed immensely to the development of the bilateral cultural relations between the U.S. and Bulgaria.”
— Bulgarian Art & Culture Bulletin, NY, Dr. Nikolay Milkov, Ambassador, Consul General of the Republic of Bulgaria in New York
“A rare style of total theatre that you don’t get to see…Urban Tao Evolution organically weaves abstract philosophy and personal reflections through movement and drama”.
— Nicole Estavnik-Taylor – American Theatre
“…Profound, subtle, unconventional, an arresting way of deciphering the Da Vinci Code through contemporary dance, sacred chants, video and theatre. A powerful and intelligent work that moves you…Overground brings together dancers from Russia, Holland, Morocco, Korea, Italy, Japan and Bulgaria in a worldly show featuring a striking 21st-century avant-garde dance…”
—Linda Stasi, NY Post
“Avatar – an ultra-contemporary theatrical pastische weaving traditional modern dance & theatre idiom. Magnificently structured and superbly performed, a digital epiphany breaking away from the confines of the theatrical didactic and embracing the associative logic of multi-media art…”
— Keva Apostolova, Editor in Chief of Bulgarian Theatre Magazine
“Christ & Magdalene of Overground Physical Theatre Company – an aggressively lyrical work – lyrical for its subtle elegance and aestheticism, aggressive for its poignant social relevance and whimsical flavor…Powerful lacework of universal and personal, a well devised project – from concept to implementation…”
— Lubka Georgieva, Culture Magazine, Sofia Press
“A provocative dance collage daring and innovative, prophetic and penetrating into the inner atlas of myth and legend…a symbiosis of existential and epic, brilliant character work, visually stunning and plastically sublime…”
— Valia Petrova – theatre editor, Higher Attestation Committee Theatre Department Bulletin, Sofia
“Overground Physical Theatre Company trespasses the boundaries of conventional form and offers a new depth of vision. Avatar tools draw from renown theatre reformers to conceive an enigmatic patchwork of Jerzhi Grotovsky, Bertold Breht, Antonin Artaud and Pina Bausch – true 21 c theatre – dynamic, polyphonic, multifaceted, “virtureal”, mysterious and concrete…”
— Anthony Patellis – La Mama Producer and Director, NY
“In combining modern and traditional varieties of these various art forms, Katrandjieva deliberately avoids hammering out a synthesis as an earlier generation of multiculturalists might have done. Instead she allows a sort of coexistence without forcing connections and interrelations onto the audience, who become partners in the creative act, a performance with ambitious scope, a multi-faceted originality where deep philosophy unfolds…”
— David Lipfert, Attitude Magazine, NY