“There’s never been anyone that I would have wanted to remount ‘Marche Slav’ on until Kathleen. She has this wonderful combination of being mature enough, but also strong enough with a real understanding for this work,” Bresciani says. “Kathleen also has a kind of beauty. The Greeks have a word for this — kallos — meaning beauty from inside and outside that is able to help her portray these roles with such depth.”
– Jeanne Bresciani, Artistic Director of the Isadora Duncan International Institute The Winnipeg Free Press 2017
“Her maiden voyage not only showcased her artistry, vision and chameleonic versatility but also proved her requisite grit and drive in becoming one of this country’s newest solo dance artists.”
– Holly Harris The Dance Current 2016
“I could not help but feel that we were seeing a younger Margie Gillis at the beginning of her illustrious career. However, Hiley is wisely neither imitating nor emulating the renowned Canadian dance icon….through their creative combustion, Gillis has discovered a lingua franca between the two dance artists – based on their mutual ability to express an entire world of emotion through conveying achingly, all-too-human stories.”
– Holly Harris The Dance Current 2016
“Musings showcased the dramatic sensibility of the barefooted Hiley, who performed Quanz’s contemporary dance vernacular, including body isolations, gnarly hands that twist like Spanish floreo, wide sweeps across the stage, percussive kicks and tumbleweed rolls, with the passion of a woman possessed.”
– Holly Harris Dance International 2019
“As always, Kathleen Hiley’s level of expression and intensity was mesmerizing to watch, lending her characters a kind of dark heroine quality that would be at home in a Tim Burton movie.”
– Anna Lazowski CBC Manitoba 2012
“Dancer Kathleen Hiley becomes a bewitching mermaid in this myth-like stunner. Never mind bringing back the Jets. Drive Dance has brought back a Winnipeg stage classic.
– Alison Mayes The Winnipeg Free Press 2011
“Seeing an entire scene performed with a single dancer, Kathleen Hiley, sitting in one place on the ground was breathtaking and worth the price of admission alone.”
– Anna Lazowski CBC Manitoba 2010
“Hiley cuts a figure as tragic as a Tolstoy heroine, sitting in a sea of dark fabric while her beautifully expressive face tells her ambiguous tale.”
– Holly Harris The Dance Current 2010
“It’s a unique pleasure to see Price Hiley perform her mother’s choreography, which seems to be in her very bones and infuses the entire show with organic authenticity.”
– Holly Harris The Dance Current 2009
Photo: Leif Norman