“Mary Lyn Graves begins the dance sloppily sneaking around the orchestra pit in a black hoodie and later transitions into more virtuosic sequencing... her performing body is able to move between these identities swiftly and even comically.”
“Graves and Gallegos had a litheness... and their unison movement emphasized physical rituals... creating meaning beyond the action itself.”
“Mary Lyn Graves is a highlight of Ririe-Woodbury’s staging of “Mechanical Organ.” Quick and crisp, elegant and elongated, Graves’ performance of the doll-like solo was a perfect balancing act of precise attack and languid release.”
“[Graves’] dancing was also exquisite throughout the performance”
“The most intriguing section was Mary Lyn Graves’ solo appearance in Doll With A Broken Head”
“Gallegos and Graves dance at gleeful cross-purposes and inevitable agreement in “Two Not Yet Together.””
“Graves had a great solo that started off with frantic steps, wildly off balance, then morphed into a deliciously suspended, off-kilter arabesque.”
“...the trio of dancers – Mary Lyn Graves, Dan Mont-Eton and Megan McCarthy (on closing night) – was mesmerizing.”
writing
Dat Nguyen’s Will The Sheep Come To Be Cleaned, July 2019
Ballet West's The Shakespeare Suite, April 2018
Ballet West's Carmina Burana, with Serenade, November 2017
Deseret Experimental Opera Company: 2047, October 2017
Ballet West's Journeys and Reflections, April 2017
Ballet West's The Nijinksy Revolution, April 2016
Artists of Utah Profile of Erica Womack , April 2016