„A feast of the Russian soul“

Gabriele Gorgas, Sächsische Zeitung

„The perspective inside the Big Top allows Derevo an unusual dimension of pictured language but does not miss any of the poetry or the ingenious humour.”

Rico Stehfest, Dresdner Culture Magazine

„It’s like the atmosphere of a Big Top is made for this performance in which a gondola is gliding through the “air”, the curtains on four towers are fluttering in sinister theatricality and on a turntable as core suffering creatures rise on a cross from a wooden frame… where one can see theatre inside theatre without words and where death is dancing and feasts are celebrated.”

Bistra Klunker, Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten

„The turntable inside the Sarrasani Big Top lures into the world of „La Divina Commedia“ and lets the senses fade between dream and time.“

Magazine Prinz

„A Big Top for the masters of body language“

Dresdner Morgenpost

„Vertical means something like upright, points to a certain tradition and clear aims for the future“

T. Petzold, Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten

„Dance, performance, pantomime, clowning, music and film are the elements from which the artist group Derevo has formed it’s very own form of physical theatre for 17 years now. And from these elements they also create the festival “Vertical”…

Magazine SAX