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Mirror Mirror for Stalker Theatre
“This Australian treat... the high point of the Festival... top in genre… definitive work... beautiful… MirrorMirror is a majestic moving artwork.”
Eric Nederkoorn, Dagblad Van Het Noorden, 24 August, 2009

Malediction for Company Duda Paiva
“Paiva and Norton return to the blending of dance, puppetry and object theatre and oh how is that unbelievably beautiful...decor music video in virtually everything in Malediction is brilliant and magic!”
NRC 2008

Bespoken
"With Bespoken, Paul Selwyn Norton returns to his especially strong choreographic roots...the dancers and musicians meet each other here in an intimate and for Norton, a surprisingly lyrical setting...a pure dance jewel and the highest point of the Festival”
Trouw 07.11.07

Oblique Danceworks Rotterdam
“His ode to the dancing body of the new millennium is a brilliant homage to all the dance cultures in a globalised world” NRC Nederland

The Rogue Tool
Moscow Chamber Ballet
“Paul Selwyn Norton makes work that blows dance off of the coffee table and back into the line of creative fire.” Golden Mask Award for Innovation In Choreography

 
Sub Rosa
Frankfurt Ballet
"A complex poetic beauty of great power and resonance" Frankfurter Rundschau

The Rogue Tool
Batsheva Dance Company
"Between the sometimes cruel images of the listless body being manipulated, to the warmth of his fabulous duet work, Norton is a magician who does with us what he wills." Harets Tel Aviv

Johnny Panic
Korzo Theatre Productions

“At its heart a brutal but highly crafted solo, coupled with unpredictable whimsy. Dance that is fiercely calculated, but with a capricious grin from ear to ear.” Scottish Times

"An iconoclastic and dazzling tour de force" New York Times

“Norton dissemination of the entertainment world ruffles the feathers of the staid modern dance scene” Glasgow Herald

Phillip Morris Finest Selection Commission
"Norton does not strive for slick packaged dance, but rather he researches all the possibilities of the body's expressive voice, and he melts theses into a crisp and thrilling dance vocabulary… Norton's choreography reveals itself in a love of very refined construction that resolves an apparently unpredictable chaos into beautiful order. All the usual dance rules are thrown overboard. It is work that amazes, intrigues and excites.”