Press Quotes

Julie Lemberger Photography 2005

Dance Magazine

Caroline Copeland’s torso retains a regal calm as her turns and jumps race to Handel’s music….Suddenly she stops and shows a simple tendu, pausing to savor the power of the instep.

The Village Voice

Caroline Copeland executed the rapid leaps and tight turns of the title role in Terpsicore  with  precision and surprising fluidity given her corseted torso. Copeland revealed the timeless allure of a gloved arm emerging from a lace sleeve and, fixing the 21st-century audience with her gaze, paused to present the lost beauty of an ankle delicately displayed just below a hemline.

I melted at the soft rise and fall of M. Feuillet’s Sarabande, rapturously performed by Miss Copeland….

Backstage Magazine

Caroline Copeland dancing a solo Sarabande imbued her flawless footwork with alluring acting qualities….

Dallas Morning News

….but as the muse of dance, Terpsicore, Caroline Copeland made a worthy rival, just as radiant and youthful, just as winning in personality. As she swept across stage with little jumps, pauses and spacious turns, she defined the essence of grace.

New York Sun

Caroline Copeland delivered a lovely performance in the role: She tottered self-consciously and twirled around excitedly on one heel, a finger at her lip ("Your every turn enchants the heart, and fills it with delight").

The Advocate & Greenwich Time

Copeland and Kasper….revealed the deep sense of pattern and the process of motion inherent in the music itself and made visible its grace, appeal and fiery energy.  It felt, at times, like viewing spirits – ghosts that were summoned, danced, bowed and left the stage before vanishing.

Wall Street Journal

In the light-hearted first entrée, professional dancers from the New York Baroque Dance Company stole the show. The sublime Caroline Copeland, as Doris, who tries to distract the singing lovers was set against Timothy Kasper, Love’s emissary....

Show Business Weekly
     
In Sarabande Caroline Copeland swished with lively elegance and sparkling vivacity through this dance, which like the tango today, was all the rage in the 18th century.