Named 1 of 20 artists to watch. Gillen's 'emotionally compelling' work 'transcends the things it references and achieves a sort of platonic ideal of intelligent and elevated movement.'

-Brooklyn Magazine Culture Issue

 

'The most satisfying dance on the bill turns out to be MFA candidate Shannon Gillen’s sharp, clear quartet “Deep Sequencing"...'

-Metro, Elizabeth Zimmer

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'Watching Shannon Gillen + Guests perform "A Colored Image of the Sun" means being struck over and over by the human ability to achieve the sublime. The constant push and pull between beauty and terror and ecstasy and violence was apparent in every minute of the piece, which transcended the limitations implicit in the human form and became something more than human, it became universal.'
-L Magazine, Kristin Iversen

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'A Colored Image of the Sun puts a powerful charge in the air from start to end.'
-OffOffOffDance, Quinn Batson

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'She has placed conceptual and choreographic layers on top of the dancers’ natural inclinations, found a way to contextualize their vocabularies and built a house for it all to live in. Gillen is definitely a choreographer to watch.'
Andy Horwitz, CULTUREBOT

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'A fluid mover, the fearsome Ms. Gillen has an electrifying theatrical presence.'
Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times

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'Ideas, inventions and movement come fast and furious in CLAP FOR THE WOLFMAN, and the dancers take everything from Gillen and make it brilliant.'
Quinn Batson, OffOffOff - dance

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'Who knew that the shipping industry could be choreographed? Gillen describes what seems a very undancerly subject with surprising inventiveness.'
'Dances that made my heart sing were Shannon Gillen’s Botlek [at Dance New Amsterdam], and David Dorfman’s Prophets of Funk [at the Joyce Theater].'
Trina Mannino
Contributor, Dance Europe Magazine and The Dance Enthusiast

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'Shannon Gillen, in particular, was startlingly absorbed in her performance, pulling the audience right into her world and her experience.'
www.dancingperfectlyfree.com

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'Gillen is based in New York but has been known to perform in Montreal; our hope here is that her company may make it farther west and perform in Toronto. Her striking, hard-driving and emotionally affecting work is not to be missed.'
Evidance Radio, Toronto, Canada

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'Les thèmes explorés par le spectacle et le rendu des artisans de la scène ont définivement cloués les spectateurs à leur siège. L'exécution et la finesse des danseuses donnent envie d'en voir plus!' The themes explored in the show and the craftsmanship of the scene, definitively nailed the audience to their seats. The execution and the finesse of the dancers gives more than one thing to envy!
Mathieu Mireault, Nightlife Magazine in Montreal, Canada

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'Beth Rudin DeWoody, Marty Margulies and Alain Servais, meanwhile could be seen prowling the aisles, or lounging in the grass admiring Shannon Gillen & Guests’ dance performance ‘WALL’ for which women dressed in white hurled themselves against a large white wall, ran around it and rolled alongside it... launched themselves into the galleries’ white-walled booths with an abandon almost equal to that of the lithe dancers on the lawn.'
SGG at PULSE Art Fair, Emma Allen of ArtInfo, www.artinfo.com

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'dives into idiosyncratic worlds in her work.'
Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times

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'Gillen pours as much humor into her works as she does her modern dance training.'
Keisha Franklin, The Village Voice

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'The film acts as a conduit, its characters providing impulses for the dancers and a thematic duality of brute versus innocent.'
www.iDANZ.com

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'The repetitions, mirror images, and sly choreography give us the chance to re-evaluate what’s happening at the same time as we’re enjoying it. Shannon Gillen’s choreography compliments Madeleine’s Bernatchez’ direction perfectly.'
Alexis Clements, The L Magazine