"Domy Reiter Soffer's haunting ballet "Sunsets" premiered last night by Dance Kaleidoscope at the Repertory Theater was indeed the highlight of the program. It is to music by Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings op.31. Actually a suite of five songs, including Lord Tennyson's and Keats. Tall and long- armed, his ink-etching face severe, Watson, to the distant horn call that opens the serenade. Appears as a death figure summoning the living or the dead or the dying, figures sliding out from the wings drawn and at the same time repelled. In the third song a setting of William Blake's "O Rose Thou art sick" the death implications became obvious as Watson drags Ms. Hall off stage slowly. The whole work is shot through with loss-loss of time, loss of love, love of life and the company brought to it the pathos and intensity that was deeply moving. The choreographer has created a unique language of dance rarely seen and an atmosphere to match. Sunsets is definitely a great edition to the Company's Repertoire".
Charles Staff- (The Indianapolis News).
"Reiter Soffer's "Sunsets". An absorbing abstract narrative is the most sticking on the program. Its starkness and theatricality hint at some of Reiter Soffer's other works of great masters. The haunting dance of death is set to Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and strings, op.31 songs based on poetry including William Blake's "O Rose thou art Sick" and John Keats "O soft embalmer of the still Midnight". Seven sections depict the main theme in the poems, the conflict of conscious and subconscious world of dreams and death. The figure of death, imposingly performed by Aubrey Watson, presides over the piece. The living and dying are attracted and repulsed by him. He controls their fate as they crawl towards him, with imploring arms outstretched, fingers splayed. Duets between Watson and Cherrie Jaffe-and Watson and Ginger Hall were particularly moving. The whole work is captivating and highly charged. I advise everyone to rush and see this extraordinary work".
Betsy Light- (The Indianapolis Star).