Justitia

British Theatre Guide / 1 May 2009

'Justitia opens with a spine-chillingly beautiful scene which sums up the theatrical forces at play in Jasmin Vardimon’s excellent courtroom dance drama.'

MusicOMH / 1 May 2009

'The ever-refreshing, ever-entertaining programme by Sadler’s Wells at their central London outpost, the Peacock Theatre, continues with Justitia by Jasmin Vardimon Company, a “gripping courtroom dance drama” that is brutal and darkly comic in equal measures, set on a grand revolving stage.'

Ballet.co.uk / 1 May 2009

'An extravaganza of impressive physicality, a formidable set design and both harrowing and hilarious theatre; Jasmin’s dance theatre makes you stand up and listen, and Justitia is no exception.'

Worthing Herald & Littlehampton Gazette / 17 March 2009

'This work is daring in its goal-setting and searingly successful in its means. The dancing serves to expand the emotion, tension and the penetration of Vardimon’s concepts about our psychology.'

The Stage / 11 May 2007

'In her latest dance theatre piece, Justitia, Jasmin Vardimon matches narrative clarity with astonishing visual imagery in a balance that is notoriously difficult to achieve. Where the text in much dance theatre relies on a clumsy mix of memories and observations devised by the performers, Justitia wisely uses a script, by writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz, which provides a solid structure for Vardimon’s movement to enhance, explore and illuminate.'

Nottingham Evening Post / 2007

'This extraordinary piece takes us to the edge of the modern dance genre. At times it plunges into legitimate theatre: each performer plays, not simply a representative type, but a real, well-delineated character with a name and a personal narrative.'

South Wales Argus / 4 May 2007

'The medium of dance theatre pushed all boundaries when Jasmin Vardimon’s Justitia was performed at Newport Riverfront last night.'

The Argus / March 2009

'A captivating crime narrative lies at the core of Justitia, almost equal parts theatre and dance. Not so much a whodunnit, as a “how did it happen?”, the piece explored a man’s murder in his best friend’s home, apparently perpetrated by the latter’s wife.'

In Conversation with Jasmin Vardimon / 2007

'Over the last ten years I have been watching Jasmin’s works grow from their beginnings as intense duets and trios to their present incarnations as large ensemble works, the latest production being Justitia – located in and around a courtroom.'

The Chaos of Probabilities / 2009

'Jasmin Vardimon’s works belong to this hybrid kind of performance in which the genres lose their importance. Theatre, dance, text and new media make up a colorful mosaic. Justitia epitomizes all the elements which persistently return in Vardimon’s works, supreme above them the body, which exposes and at the same time celebrates.'