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Chicago Tribune Best of 2011 [http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-12-09/entertainment/ct-ae-1211-best-dance-20111210_1_chicago-dancing-festival-dance-troupe-eiko-koma]
WBEZ Best of 2011 [http://music.wbez.org/blog/onstagebackstage/2011-12-21/2011s-funniest-and-best-dressed-chicago-shows-95076]
Chicago Reader Best of 2011 [http://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/best-dance-trance-space/BestOf?oid=4102459]
TimeOut Chicago Best of 2011 [http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/dance/15039945/best-lighting-designs-for-dance-2011-in-review]
Chicago Reader “The One to Watch” 2010 [http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/fall-arts-guide-2010-jonathan-meyer/Content?oid=2423067]
Watching Jonathan Meyer and Julia Rae Antonick tumble, flip, and wrestle through their intricate duet work is like riding a roller coaster without leaving your chair.
- TimeOut Chicago (read article) [http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/dance/60747/double-trouble]
Exciting, fresh, rigorous, lucid, surprising and very, very difficult.
- Trailerpilot (read article) [http://trailerpilot.com/2008/12/23/top-of-the-year-to-you/]
Lean, clean artistry.
- Chicago Tribune (read article) [http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-09-11/entertainment/ct-ent-0912-khecari-review-20110911_1_loft-spectacle-dance]
Totally drunken master tango, if there were such a thing.
- TimeOut Chicago (read article) [http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/dance/84056/tricky-tricky]
Antonick and Meyer are uncommon in that they set out with big goals and, more often than not, exceed them.
- TimeOut Chicago (read article) [http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/dance/15061049/live-review-khecari-the-clinking]
Fascinating, magical, and eerie.
- SeeChicagoDance (read article) [http://seechicagodance.com/reviews/ - review_539]
Astonishing and ingenious.
- SeeChicagoDance (read article) [http://seechicagodance.com/performance/461]
A wealth of contradictions and tensions… revelatory.
- SeeChicagoDance (read article) [http://seechicagodance.com/index.php/reviews/]
Julie Rae Antonick and Jonathan Meyer evoked a strange, original, deliciously schemed landscape of the mind.
- Chicago Tribune (read article) [http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-09-27/entertainment/ct-live-0927-columbia-college-dance-r20100927_1_art-site-specific-work-beauty]
Intense, challenging and aggressive.... The dancing is top-notch and unlike anything else happening in the city. Meyer and Ballard have made a piece of dance cinema in the flesh.
- Trailerpilot (read article) [http://trailerpilot.com/2009/09/13/the-waking-room/]
Two decidedly serious dancers are teaming up for what promises to be gutsy, challenging, complex and thought-provoking.
- TakeChicagoDance (read article) [http://takechicagodance.com/news/article/278]
The genius - and challenge - of Jonathan Meyer's new piece is how thoroughly it creates and inhabits its own world. [It is] a tight, efficient, uniquely enlightening journey into the elemental.
- SeeChicagoDance (read article) [http://seechicagodance.com/performance/53]
Jonathan Meyer does not color inside the lines…. [He] specializes in brave, intelligent, self-challenging and audience-challenging work. His new ‘Y,’ the second in a series of three solos, is true to form.
- SeeChicagoDance (read article) [http://seechicagodance.com/performance/427]
This is a trio tormented by spasmodic chaos and tortured movement, characters of pain and lunacy, seemingly with little control over their own seizure-like gestures and creepy mini-dramas. It is also a world of high-octane danger [going] way beyond the typical art-house presentation of alienating abstract imagery. This trio is fast and scary, whirling in place or falling to the floor with an intensity that imperils their bones.
- The Chicago Tribune (read article) [http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-09-12/news/0909110317_1_waking-room-mechanistic]
Not to be missed…. Meyer appears moved by a primordial force, at times shedding the chains of ego and anatomy in rapid hyper-fluidity, bouncing off the floor like an amoeba on a trampoline, then returning to reflective, mercurial moments of humanity.
- NewCity Stage (read article) [http://newcitystage.com/2009/09/07/preview-the-waking-roomkhecari-dance-theatre/]
It’s just lovely movement that you could sit back and watch and luxuriate in… it’s also an example of artists who are exploring their process and where their movement vocabulary is generated from and then how they’re transforming that into quite beautiful and engaging movement onstage.
- Chicago Public Radio
[Jonathan Meyer] is the Rainer Marie Rilke of movement poets, a man deeply fascinated by the possibility of peace and generosity in our troubled times…
- Attitude: The Dancers’ Magazine
His work reveals the blood, sweat, and tears of relationships and physicality.
- The Albuquerque Journal
