The Hidden Garden, mesmerising exploration of power and perfection.
By Shine Up China / Winnie Wen
Jill Crovisier, a brilliant and prolific artist.
By Le Dauphiné Libéré / Christine Rivel-Ruffin
The Hidden Garden , a big favorite.
By La Provence / Patrick Denis
SAHASA..Urban Magic.
By Le Lëtzebuerger Land / Godefroy Gordet
HALFHORSE HALFWOMAN ..Idiosyncratic, precise movement and strong gestural sequences couple with rhythmic travelling progressions.
By DANCE Australia / Liza Lanzi
I(CE)(S)CREAM BOLERO FEMME is original, funny, witty and very creative.
By Mindshare / Alex McGee
The choreography SAHASA from Luxembourg thrilled at the SAL Theater.
By Le Vaterland/ Bettina Stahl-Frick
BOLERO…There is a man perched on skates dancing a quarter of an hour in danger.
By La Stampa / Francesca Rosso
The Hidden Garden…Poetic, powerful, funny, like no one else, it's surprisingly accurate. Mime, pantomime, magnificent dancer, actress, she is everything at the same time. She embarks us in a dizziness of emotions, sensations. The land, the life, the music.
By Philippe Traversian / conteur-de-memoires
ONNANOKO… Jill Crovisier draws with her choreographic genius the scales executed by these six young dancers full of future.
By Le Lëtzebuerger Land / Godefroy Gordet
No one has ever brought Ravel's Bolero to the stage in such a sensual, ice-licking way.
By Le Land / Anina Valle Thiele
The Hidden Garden…It is the choreographer herself who interprets this very convincing, committed and virulent solo: she is masked by a bouquet of plastic flowers on the ground of an artificial lawn of a striking raw green: A square space for a soloist with a powerful body, which recounts the trance of a woman struggling with a hostile and insecure environment. The dance is rough, the body firm and definitive, the visions follow one another while the bouquet flies wasteland: music in tune with this bursting which unfolds in a cocooning, under the carpet, the image of a moving and striking effect of science fiction!
By L’amuse danse / Geneviève Charras
JINJEON…Halfway through the performance there is a marvellous segment which is the embodiment of human. The choreographic feels so detached from anything mechanic that all you feel is pure, raw human energy… The transition from human to machine was very well executed every time it was observed. Despite the opposite concepts, the progression felt not only perfectly organic, but also highly aesthetic. The focus on the evolution could have easily led the choreographer to sacrifice beauty, but this trap was masterfully avoided.
By Broadway World / Nuno De Sousa Lopes
William Cardoso puts on roller skates to execute the bribes of a Ravel Bolero, it's strong, precise and almost perfect.
By Le Lëtzebuerger Land / Godefroy Gordet
Jill Crovisier’s South African premiere of Zement, the solo was a most intriguing solo performance…The instant changes back and forth between popping like movements to those smooth as jelly and military style attention mixed in was unique in its combination. The performance quality was outstanding.
By Dance retrospect / Klaus Warschkow
Crovisier’s work is already impressively distinct. In ”The Hidden Garden,” Crovisier focuses on the question of what happens to our accessing of our imaginative minds as we grow up as a starting point for her work. Introducing us to a sharply lit square patch of grass, our own little garden marked very clearly as both an abstract and real space which allows our minds to enter, from the beginning, a type of virtuality. We are introduced to a strange creature who shuffles across the stage with a bouquet of flowers for a head, before revealing his face and natural human form. Such a surreal start demands already that we fuse real and unreal images as our first point of order, moving our attention to the ”regular” form of the human body and its movements not as a given, but as something that comes subsequently. As such, Crovisier opens our minds from the outset into what things could be, look like, and do.
By TanzRaum Berlin / Sasha Amaya
The Hidden Garden…Guaranteed magic effect. So many faces, ambiances of situations, which in a flash dissolve. In this constant zapping, Jill sort of Alice in Wonderland sails through the sandstone of universes: rough, absurd, light.
By cccdanse / Anna Chirescu
Zement, the solo is very impressive, thoughtful and consistent.
By Gdanski Fetiwal Tanca Poland / Miroslawa Barana
The Hidden Garden offers an original and captivating exploration of the conflict between our deepest aspirations and the expectations of normative society. She manages to juggle different expressive registers without losing coherence. Her gestural creativity, nourished by the influences of the different countries where she worked, is served by an excellent interpretation. Finally, the scenography, music and lights combine skillfully to create, with a minimum of resources and in 40 minutes, a strong emotional impact.
By Chronicle / JCA
MATKA, a poetic invitation to travel
By La Glaneuse / Marie-Laure Rolland
MATKA is a dance piece full of poetry and joy that arouses wonderment for the youngest audience. Highly acclaimed, MATKA allowed the public to take part in a story like no other : a journey through varied universes where dance, music and circus are intimately linked.
By Luxembourger Wort / Mireille Petitgenet
Nothing could be further from artistic movement. Zement, the solo is the name of the piece by Jill Crovisier from Luxembourg - a purist solo on Bach music - and a candidate for one of the most sought-after awards in the international dance world.
By Neue Presse Hannover / Henning Queren
SIEBEN, her first major work, which brings together seven remarkable dancers, is promising .. It is interesting to note that the way Jill Crovisier built SIEBEN is itself extremely mastered. With SIEBEN, Jill Crovisier succeeds the transition to the top speed in a carrier already well launched.
By La Glaneuse / Marie-Laure Rolland
Some of the many strong moments of the piece are also characterized by a certain comedy and one or the other oppressive moment .. Whether there is a Bausch-moment in SIEBEN and how powerful a human swarm dances, is definitely worth finding out for yourself.
By Lëtzebuerger Journal / Sophia Schülke
A contemporary aesthetic with expressionist accents .... Seven wonderful dancers..SIEBEN gives life to beautiful images highlighted by music, subtle and expressive play of light and the alternation of slow and fast gestures, jerky movements and fluids, evoking both the strength and fragility of the body, between convulsions and sways, between rupture and continuity ... Precise and synchronised gestures to make the collective live.
By Le Jeudi / Karin Sitarz
SIEBEN is a powerful choreography that shakes as much as it touches. And Jill Crovisier, who caused a sensation on the dance scene in Luxembourg 2016 with her play The Hidden Garden ..., seems to have an exciting journey as choreographer and video artist ahead.
By Lëtzebuerger Land / Anne Valle Thiele
