“In LORCA LIBRE, each movement is infused with feeling. There is length in all extensions; reach in every tilt. The choreography gains even more powerful breadth when the three girls enter with sweeping shawls. The piece then continues to build to a flirtatious end as the dancers playfully respond to each other, step complementing step.”                         THE SKINNY, EDINBURGH, UK

Mao's impassioned, dynamic LORCA LIBRE –

complex choreographic diversity and multiplicity.”      

                                                           THREE WEEKS, Edinburgh, UK

“Michael Mao has a great feel for drama and music and shows this in Lorca Libre, set to songs by poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca and delivering tragedy, passion and celebration. Mao‘s storytelling flair and musicality is still very much in evidence.”                                                 EDINBURGH SPOTLIGHT

“Mao offered us ‘Lorca Libre’ – some fantastic performances based on the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca including my favourite of the afternoon, ‘Son de Negros en Cuba’, danced by

Kristin Draucker and Antonio Fini.”

             EDINBURGH FESTIVALS MAGAZINE