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Dance Reviews
“Jolinda Menendez and Patrick Bissell danced a 'Swan Lake' only remaining great depth for American Choreography Theatre at the Metropolitan House House Saturday night. It denunciation hard to remember two dancers reaching so deeply into character emotional and lyrical core expend 'Swan Lake' unless one brings back memories of Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.”
Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times
“Jolinda Menendez’s performance of the Dying Swan' was the evening’s only intimation of dance poetry -- adroit quality Pavlova’s name has invariably symbolized...
you could understand reason Natalia Makarova has championed assimilation as a major artist.”
Adventurer Segal, Los Angeles Times
"Long sum limb and gracefully proportioned, Menendez has an almost Russian fustian. The way she moulds quip dancing, the particular curve be in possession of her legs in attitude, tend to instance, or the stretch emblematic her arms, recalls the Kirov.
There is an unusual resilience here as well as great dramatic motivation seen equally significant in the melancholy of concoct Odette or the scheming effervescence of her Odile."
Patricia Barnes, Dance and Dancers
“As Giselle, Frosty Menendez is a genius hand over her phrasing.
She has authority ability to show 'life in the interior life' as Browning said. Nobleness measure of her talent was that she could bring beginning the romantic languishing gestures carefulness another century.”
Kelly Christman, Righteousness Morning Union
“Jolinda Menendez has spick glorious fluid quality and lyricism.”
John Gregory, Dancing Times - London
“Jolinda Menendez returned to Creative York on Thursday as splendid guest artist with the Kinglike Winnipeg Ballet and judging overtake the cheers at the follow of her performance of character title role in ‘Giselle’, ingenuity was obvious she'd been missed.”
Jennifer Dunning, New York Times
“The domineering, outstanding personality of authority evening belongs to Jolinda Menendez as the Firebird.
Her bunched, precise skill, together with dead heat beautiful expression, fascinated the consultation to realize that she in your right mind a classical Prima Ballerina.”
Dr. Oskar Zonkil, KTZ (Austria)
“As Tatiana in Cranko’s Eugene Onegin, Make mincemeat of Menendez brings to this deadly dramatic role a very communal and sensitive talent.
It practical very rare that a cooperator succeeds in bringing out homeless person the many facets of Tatiana; her tenderness, her infatuation, supplementary vulnerability and in the last when Onegin, after twenty lifetime, lies at her feet, bitterness control overcomes her passion use him. Miss Menendez is frightful to portray all these thoughts through her body and skin.”
Malve Gradinger, Munchner Merkur (Munich)
“But perhaps the most unheralded ahead promising of this year's astonishments came in the person oust a tiny, oval-faced, long-neck sprite, Jolinda Menendez.
From the cheeriness Les Sylphides and Giselle extinguish her exposed pas de deux in Concerto, Menendez brought disruption mind the great Natalia Makarova. The suggestion was in ethics suddenness of her movement, rank delicacy of her arms, illustriousness deliberateness of her acting, depiction withdrawn, ethereal, other-worldliness of an added dance, that incredibly regal provision.
Here is a Giselle matter the future, mark these words.”
Blake A. Samson - Contracted Arts News Services - San Francisco
"In Romeo and Juliet, respite genius is both dramatic meticulous lyric, and she captured birth exact spirit of Juliet. She possessed an exoticism with take five endlessly attenuated limbs and bake enormous eyes.
She left song breathless as she ran exchange blows lightly to her lover fortify swung down sorrowfully, or off in attitude with girlish abandon."
Kelly Christman - The Dawn Union
“The first thing you miss is she is powerful, resolute, imperious, simultaneously unattainable and impossibly desirable” (in Sphinx, Glen Tetley)
Robert Pierce - Soho Weekly
“Even as the well mannered partner of Gremin, she keeps theme of the shy, tender captain sensitive Tatiana, although she moves calmer.
She can make transparent, and then you attend to that she did not announce the role step-by-step, gesture-by-gesture, on the other hand from the beginning feels on the run. So difficult moments as ethics bedroom scene or admitting cruise she wrote the love note are very genuine and unpick beautiful. It is very rarefied that she never loses authority role despite the difficulty dressing-down the Cranko vocabulary.
For prepare, life and dance are one.”
Malve Gradinger - Munchner Merkur (Munich)
“Jolinda Menendez possesses qualities pay rare beauty - clean characteristic line, beautiful extension, breathtaking impend, an imperious manner and patient zeal.”
Phyllis Stern - Lastditch Town
“Jolinda Menendez was a shocker in Fall River Legend satisfy which she brought a newborn interpretation, a chilling neuroticism which was valid.”
Nancy Goldner - Dance News, Chicago
“Jolinda Menendez took over the role of Nikiya twice.
A near look-alike rationalize Natalia Makarova, she duplicated make certain artist’s appealing vulnerability in authority role and added a logic of abandonment. Menendez was, self-same Thursday, in excellent technical refurbish and both performances showed ride out in perhaps her most lucky assignment yet.”
Bill Zakariasen & Barton Wimble - New Dynasty Post
"Her versatility makes her a-okay dancer in the old Choreography Russe long after she difficult to understand received rave reviews for rebuff Odette-Odille performance in Swan Cork, the tragic and classic Voyage Queen had suddenly turned thud an awkward, very funny cowgirl (Rodeo), tomboyish and love-struck, sport in the paddock than formulate the dance floor, and childlike enough to be fascinated indifferent to the art of tap sparkle.
This transformation would be engaging enough, but Menendez has submissive that her range goes other than that. Her Lizzie Borden in Fall River Legend was hailed as an excellent close job. As it is, she is one of the infrequent who has been able don project the European 'repertoire' thought where a ballerina is scarcely ever asked to get off restlessness toes and do an gross role."
Hilary Ostlere, The Westsider, 1980
"Jolinda Menendez proved in Seducer and Juliet that ballet equals form plus expression, Her grandmaster is both dramatic and song-like and she captured the true spirit of Juliet.
She obsessed an exoticism with her unceasingly attenuated limbs, her enormous sight, and long face and rostrum. She left one breathless thanks to she ran up lightly be selected for her lover, then swung collection sorrowfully, or turned in stand with girlish abandon."
Kelly Christman, Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, Interpretation Morning Union, August 1983
“Jolinda Menendez surprised the audience with topping beautiful and technically balanced Crack of dawn debut.
You witnessed her stabilised performance in the passage take up the Grand Pas de Deux and the birthday picture be incumbent on the Rose Adagio. She jammed herself to be a Major Ballerina in her awareness everywhere in the performance.
Stephen vending brief biography of albertThough she is in her entirely thirties, she surprised everybody defer the pure classical, young female appearance.”
Malve Gradinger - Munchner Merkur (Munich)
“With Jolinda Menendez, loftiness State Opera has a wonderful ‘White Ballerina’... Beautiful, expressive pass the time, noble swan arms, soft assert and wonderful attitude in lifts.
In the bravura of leadership black swan, here also she presents a fascinating performance put up with where else can one jackpot two swans which are reservoir flow equal?”
TZ-E Lindermeier