CRITICAL PRAISE FOR HMD

"Few choreographers have a flair for comedy, but McAllister - one half of Huckabay McAllister Dance - is one of them."
- Rita Felciano, SF Bay Guardian

"Jenny McAllister's Snap, however, piqued the curiosity. A wry recreation of a wedding party, the number mingled rueful voice-overs with venerable sight gags, all delivered exuberantly by the seven performers. This may be the first dance in history which you are asked to record with flash cameras. In any case, Snap made this viewer eager to see more of this quirky essay. Which, after all, is what this edition of WestWave is all about."
- Allan Ulrich, Voice of Dance

"The final number, McAllister's "Technicolor", a spoof on the romance of dance and the dance of romance, puts us right where these artists work best - at the ridiculously funny intersection of longing and relief."
- Ann Murphy, SF Chronicle

"...outrageously comedic - (McAllister's) premiere Only in Fairytales, the most memorable work of the evening, re-imagined the Brothers Grimm with wacky, adult-pleasing results. In The Owl and the Pussycat's Very First Date, Ann Berman and Jason Whitlow cavorted to a parody of Parisian serenades by Griff Rolefson. Maria LaMance made a Disneyland-worthy Snow White in The Evil Queen Gets a Bad Apple, while a delectably wicked Erin Mei-Ling Stuart accidentally fed her magician cohort (Blane Ashby) the poisoned fruit. Phil Halbert, as a smiling prince fresh from rescuing the damsel, was only too happy to offer resuscitation. Hansel and Gretel Start a New Diet sent the siblings racing to club music and ended with a high-calorie coup de theater as Sean McMahon crushed a gingerbread house.
- Rachel Howard, Voice of Dance

"There is not a bone of pretense in the collective body of this rambunctious yet smoothly trained ensemble. In Menage a Cinq, they eat up Emma Lou Huckabay and Jenny McAllister's humor-inflected choreography with gusto and skill, and an infectious enthusiasm. While one of them worked in a quasi abstract vein, and the other with an over the top theatricality, the evening held together because of the choreographers' effervescent sense of humor which allows them to look at mass entertainment with affection and also ironic distance."
- Rita Felciano, Dance View

"Finely wrought, funny and highly ironic dance drama... Love became a cross between vampiristic hunger and pagan grotesqueries."
- Ann Murphy, The Oakland Tribune

"'You want luscious?' they seem to demand. 'I'll give you luscious.'"
- Apollinare Scherr, SF Weekly, on Jenny's Tastes Like Chicken

"The dances in Erratic Eroticism speak the dialect of common interaction, distending or stripping down recognizable gesture to reveal obscured meanings."
- Apollinare Scherr, SF Weekly, on Erratic Eroticism

"A macabre spectacle of debutante dementia."
- Sima Belmar, SF Bay Guardian

"HMD features strong dancers and a zest for the surreal, clearly rendered through athleticism and release."
- Sima Belmar, SF Bay Guardian

"Their breadth of imagination and economy of means for the most part are exemplary; the performance by the company of seven is excellent."
- Rita Felciano, SF Bay Guardian

"Bloodlust and gratuitous beaver."
- Sima Belmar, SF Bay Guardian

"Jenny McAllister seems to have a real flair for narrative. Her body grabbing French Kiss wonderfully evoked the hormone driven steaminess of late nights at dance clubs."
- Rita Felciano, SF Bay Guardian