Reviews

''The Ancient Touch Ensemble danced Butterfly Dream, based on three old haiku poems, choreographed by Delphine Kini Mei, the company's artistic director. A thirty-foot white parachute with a head and a Japanese parasol emerging from it engulfed the stage. As the figure began to twist and turn, dancers emerged from under the chute as if a butterfly were giving birth. The visual effects were stunning.''
-reviewed by Beth Mehocic for Dance Magazine, 2001-


''...Delphine’s dancing soared effortlessly with openness and abandon, bearing her open chest, exposing herself...''
-reviewed by Robert Jarrell, HeadlightJournal, 2003-

''this performance, which is by nature physically existential (“I live the awareness of my body in space and time, therefore I am.”).....drawing from internal and external energies. The diversity of their roots and the will for a confluence of these differences is what defines HumanSewingMachine as a group as well as individual butoh performance artists.' -''Random Acts of World Music and Butoh'', by Yvonne Lai, Asian Week, 2001-
http://asianweek.com/2001_07_27/arts_worldmusic.html