batulang

The best is Yvonne Ng's "batulang", an economical study of a life's journey and the obstacles it encounters, with the dancers themselves being the impediments. (Classical FM 98)

Fading Shadows/Returning Echoes

One of the top five shows in 2004. The yin and yang of the dance stage, Yvonne Ng and Robert Glumbeck were born to dance together, as they proved in this powerhouse program of duets by Glumbeck, Dominique Dumais and Tedd Robinson. Extreme physical challenges -- Like Ng swinging around on Glumbeck's back in a harness -- contrasted with psychologically complex tableaux and droll clown-like turns. (NOW magazine)

Ng's delightfully delicate frame and cascading hair belie her suprising physical power, and with complex layers of character andemotion, she wholly captures her audience. (The Dance Current)

Glorious dance with unrelenting vigour. (The Flying Inkpot)

garam shift

A brilliant and luminous work filled with striking images. (Globe and Mail)

Alchemy transfigured into action as Ng morphed between the five elements of the cosmos: water, fire, wood, metal and earth. Fusing ballet with non-Western stylistics, sculpture and vocals, Ng evoked states of being and dissolution with enigmatic gestures. (The Arts Magazine)

Serpentine Garden: another love story

It is not alwasy easy to tell whether and when Ng is being ironic or even testing parody. Ng and Hogg, who makes full use of a rich and mellifluous singing voice, carry the piece on the sheer force fo their stage personae. (National Post)

Cypress

It is the mark of Ng's acumen, that even when the trio is separated at the end, they still seem bound by invisible chains. (Globe and Mail)

Yvonne Ng's choreography grows by leaps and bounds in the new trio Cypress. The work is an intense, intricate trio. The three similary built dancers begin intertwined like branches of a tree or Cerberus and one by one, as the music wails or squeaks, they disconnect, try to find freedom and then get absorbed in some difficult but somehow inevitable reconfiguration.

The dancers' movements are extremely exposed. Ng's choreographed solos for each dancer, but often makes them dance while surrounded by the two others. One wrong move and the house of limbs could collapse. (NOW magazine)

Collection #1: xiao bai chuan

Ng continues to grow apace in craft and daring. Self-Portrait #1: xiao bai chuan is an absolute delight. (Globe and Mail)

Critics' Pick: Dancer with the most talent per square inch

YVONNE NG She may be only 4-foot-10, but in the local dance world Dora Award winner Yvonne Ng is a giant. One of the city's most expressive and intense dancers (is there any choreographer in the city who hasn't used her?), she's also an exciting, instinctive choreographer of works like Garam Shift. And wearing her impresario/producer hat, she can get you worked up about contemporary dance like no one else. Size does not matter; talent and commitment do.

NOW | OCT 28 - NOV 3, 2004 | VOL. 24 NO. 9