Domy Reiter-Soffer

"Terrain Unbound" choreographed by Domy Reiter Soffer to the evocative music of Vaughan Williams, is a stunning conceptually and its execution By the Irish National Ballet the Opera House Last Night. From the moment it starts the set icy sheet lifts and hovers broodingly over the stage, this work grips and never lets you go. From its glacial clamp of admiration and awe. A dress circle away I could feel the wind tear through Anna Donovan's hair and Mark Payne's incredible lighting served to heighten the mesmeric effect. In three movements, the terror of Captain Scott Antarctic expedition is captured with disturbing and chilling clarity. There is respite in the sensuous movement of the Intermezzo as human relationships are explored. "Terrain Unbound" is a work of genius with dancers struggling against the ever-present hardship, is a work of genuine world class. Bravo Irish National Ballet".
Declan Hassett- (The Irish Times)

"The dramatic highlight of the evening was the world premiere of Domy Reiter Soffer's "Terrain Unbound" to Vaughan Williams Sinphonia Antarctica. Visually it is stunning. The audience is lured into an eerie underworld. A translucent White tent was suspended overhead. Wind howled organs thundered. Slowly the tent furled upwards into the ceiling and Dancers appeared like lurking creatures, from out of the murk. The costumes were terrific combining greens and mauves and earth tones. The dancers' legs were primitively wrapped while their shoulders were astrally winged. The women's skirts were hitched up in front and fell into ruggedy disarray behind. Their hair was unbounded, savage and sexy. The Ballet portrays Mankind perpetual struggle against the supreme power of nature. I have to hand it to him, I thought, he is a wiz with openings and endings. The opening of this ballet drew applause for the mass of the dancers at the end of the movement. I was thoroughly absorbed and thought nice things about Domy Reiter Soffer right through the end. In the real ending the men trudged up stage into the darkness with the women mounted on their backs. It had the kind of potency that lingers through the evening. Nik Hills and Denise Roberts danced a duet that burst out of darkness and confusion with radiance and clarity. And the men's quintet showed them off to great strength. This is a ballet that will not easily forgotten and a fantastic addition to the Irish National Ballet Repertoire".
Diana Theodores- (The Sunday Tribune).

"The world premiere of Domy Reiter Soffer's "Terrain Unbound" music By Vaughan Williams Synphonia Antarctica is an inspired work for both the choreographer and the Irish National Ballet. The piece was inspired by Captain Scott's ill fated expedition to the South Pole, and here the staging was grandly theatrical in every way. The lifting of a white gauze the audience came face to face with the dancers exploring and battling against the elements. The work was superbly danced and imaginatively choreographed".
Gus Smith- (Sunday Independent).

"Domy Reiter Soffer's "Terrain Unbound" drew applause right from its opening when the blinding snowstorm suggested by white gauze lifted sufficiently to reveal the snow blinded explorers, buffeted by the chill winds that echoed around the auditorium. Set to Vaughan Williams Symphonie Antarctica, The work makes the most of the ill fated expedition that inspired the music with splendid lighting and refolding gauze forming a limitless horizon for the suffering of the explorers who are symbols for all human striving against hopeless odds. Despite fine individual performances it is the feeling the choreographer expresses through his ten dancers as a group that is most moving. I t is a stunning ballet full of power and grit".
Carolyn Swift- (The Irish Times).