Voice of Dance

Since its founding in 1989, the company has collaborated with film makers, visual designers, musicians and technologists on projects that have toured nationally and internationally. The company is committed to artistic cross-cultural exchanges through performances, workshops, and master classes that contribute to mutual understanding and respect between citizens from different countries and cultures.

Liss Fain Dance is also committed to artistic education and outreach, leading programs for students and community groups both locally and abroad.

Reviews

Visceral, emotional, compelling. Liss Fain's dynamic movement combines the clarity and precision of ballet with the emotion and abstract experimentation of contemporary dance. It is "as rigorous as it is attention-demanding...shimmering."
Dance Magazine.

The music she works with—rhythmically complex, emotionally evocative, challenging both the choreographer and the dancer—is integral to the development of the movement and ideas of the piece. The result is a rich experience of dance and music, an emotional journey, for the audience. It is, simply, stunning. "Here at last, is a choreographer who takes the chances—with extremely important and difficult scores and with an expansive vision of movement—that matter."
Voice of Dance.

"Fain has gathered together a group of dancers with an impeccable grounding in classical and modern dance. There was a powerful intensity in the dancing and a complete devotion to every move. Fain's choreography was always engrossing and dynamic, and her dancers exceptional"
- Critical Dance

"(It is) beautifully flowing work...glows with burnished intensity".
DanceViewTimes.com

"Stands neatly at the apex of contemporary and classical dance."
Ballet.co.uk Magazine

"There is a real urgency to both the music and movement. The dancers fill the work with high leg extensions and energetic leaps. Her style has a real sense of flow which is beguiling to watch, and her dancers' technical ability and musical awareness makes this triple bill one of the better examples of pure dance at this year's Fringe."
- The Scotsman

"This is one of the most innnovative modern dance (companies) in San Francisco. The dancers have solid classical training, yet they look for ways to crack, if not actually break, the mold. Their movement is very precise, but imbued with an athletic physicality that is not only very American, but very Western American. And performances don't rely only on movement and music. Visual design is given an importance rarely matched elsewhere. A performance by Liss Fain is a feast for the senses."
Lonely Planet, San Francisco city guide, 2006

"I was fascinated by Fain's approach to the score (which was Ligeti's Piano Concerto), the way she can at times follow the complex rhythmical patternings, the violent explosions of sound which boom out of the quiet pianissimi, the way the spinning patterns of the piano's cadenza-like passage are matched by a helter-skelter of bubbling movement and the way her dancers seem to treat dance as contemplation of musical scoreÖ.we see a whole series of pas de deux that range from the intimate and sensual (the use of the collpase/catch motif) to the violent and brutal."
Ballet.co.uk Magazine