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About Working with Shua Group

Shua Group is currently researching new sites for Public Moves projects and exhibiting Soft Wall and Full (Public Acts projects). The company also performs dance repertory including the site-specific Terrestrial and stage works Orange Place and Whole Thing. See descriptions of these works at the Works page.

Shua Group has worked with a variety of presenters including museums, galleries, performance festivals, socially driven arts organizations and theaters. Presenting Shua Group, particularly our interactive and site-based projects is a dynamic process of dialogue and collaboration with the curators, the place, and local collaborators and/or participants. Directors Joshua Bisset and Laura Quattrocchi lead all projects; they are joined by composers, designers, dancers relevant to the projeect. Joshua Bisset and Laura Quattrocchi have taught movement exploration (based on Kinetic Awareness, Klein Technique and sense based improvisational practices at Rutgers University, Manhattanville College, Summer Stages Dance Festival, and in France and Italy.

Shua Group Work History

Feedback from local performers on Public Moves projects

Giant place detail

"I will never look at the Winter Garden in the same way. Since the first time I entered it in the summer of 2000 I have traveled through it in a state of waking sleep. Now I have a totally new connection to the space."

"It's just amazing how art and collaboration could transcend all manner of barriers, brought people from different cultures, backgrounds and ages together, and created such a beautiful performance."

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Public Moves Federal Hill

"A simultaneous participant and observer, I realized how easily a mass of unrelated people can gather a nd work towards a common goal with so much tacit, mutual understanding.

"What I feel is a sense of discovery and excitement at what has been discovered."

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  • Press Comments (Printable Articles)

  • Dance International
    I returned the next evening - it was that enthralling - people were moving freely into the action and clearly relishing every minute of it.
  • Tribeca Tribune
    a living breathing commentary on movement and space
  • The New Jersey Star Ledger
    a post-script to the history of modern dance
  • The Baltimore Sun
    everything to do with seeing the world in a sharper more focused way.
  • The Philedelphia City Paper
    a display of audience/artist trust the likes of which created some of the most moving cathartic movement theater ever witnessed.
  • The New Jersey Star Ledger
    An attitude of breakaway curiosity and a hunger for exploring a world of forms imbued with feeling.
  • Le Journal du Pays Basque (France)
    A moment intimate and universal.
  • The New Jersey Star Ledger
    Uncertainty about the performers' identities was balanced by the surprise of recognizing a dancer posed casually, absorbing the people nearby into a choreographic design.
  • Diario Berria(Spain)
    they took four audience members and together developed a choreography, creating a situation of beauty in a very natural and delicate way until reaching deep emotions in all the audience. -
  • The New Jersey Star Ledger
    a rare talent for composing attractive formal structures.
  • citysearch.com
    the production batters the fourth wall relentlessly from start to finish.
  • Le Journal du Pays Basque(France)
    the public was very enthusiastic and applauded the company for an intense and deeply human moment.