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PRESS REVIEWS

"..., but it was Ruby Rowat who had us on the edge of our seats with her solo trapeze act."
-Martin Millerchip, 28/8/98,
North Shore News.

"Ruby Rowat's trapeze act is a crowdpleaser as the Vancouver native sweivels & twists in her aviatrix outfit, hanging from the bar by toes, heels & knees."
-Damian Inwood, 3/9/98,
The Vancouver Province.

"Ruby Rowat's work on the swinging trapeze made me whoop with pleasure and fear. And I liked the fact that Rowat adopts a dashing, leather-goggled aviator persona that helps inflect her work with dreamy lyricism."
-Colin Thomas, 27/8/98,
The Georgia Straight.

"Powerful, [Rowat] swings up in her trapeze, throws herself backwards to hang by her knees. In the next second, her whole body is outstretched, the only part of her body touching the trapeze is the top of her feet. ...one of the few chosen among many applicants to perform in this year's Cirkus Prinsessan Festival."
-Sara Larsson, 16/4/98,
Expressen Stockholm.

"By the time she slid back to earth, the crowd was deleriously, besottedly, hers ... In the end, Ruby ... was the highlight of Friday's World Cycle Messenger Championship closing party."
-Neva Chonin, 3/9/96,
San Francisco Bay Guardian.

" ...the trapeze woman, Ruby Rowat, who plays Princess Elektra, has muscles out to here and .....she's pretty cute. .... It would be very romantic. "
-Alan Hindle, 9/7/04,
Terminal City Weekly.

" Ruby Rowat plays a pointy-boobed Electra with plenty of attitude. "
-Jo Ledingham, 7/7/04,
Vancouver Courrier.

" Take a trip to the magical Circus Oz at the New Victory Theater in New York City and you’ll see the zany Australian company reinvent the impossible: Just when you think this animal-free one-ring circus can’t possibly further stretch the limits - or your imagination - there is...... the captivating Ruby Rowat, who sweeps out over the audience on her trapeze, touching the ceiling with her toes; she dangles precariously from one foot and then flips in mid-air only to grab her trapeze at the last second. She literally makes you stop breathing! This is possibly the most outrageous, mind-blowing, exotic collaboration of talent you can possibly see, anywhere. They are masterful in their feats and seem thrilled to be taking you on a trip - …there is no return from the land of Circus Oz! "
-Emily Klemmer, 1/2/04,
Ballet-Dance magazine.

" I was completely heartened by the display of playful power from the women in the company. ... Ruby Rowat rushes past us with willful abandon on her swinging trapeze. I can't wait to bring my daughter to the New Vic during its 10-year anniversary season to instill images of flying bodies and people standing on each other's heads. "
-Maura Nguyen Donohue, 15/12/03,
New York - The Dance Insider .


photo: John Tremblay