Reviews
"Piñón exhibited a finely balanced ability to depict opposing emotions and expressive motion, from the gentle power of mystical femininity to the angst-ridden pain of conflict."
LORNA MCLEOD, Sedona Arts, Arizona
"The presentation of conceptual art of the highest professional quality and integrity provided a refreshing, if not redeeming alternative, to the selection of the spring season..."
ACHMED VALK, Red Rock News, Sedona, Arizona
"His body shifts like an apparition in the wind - slow and deliberate, energy and muscle movements unified, transporting the obsserver from this world to a borderless world of ritual dance."
ANTONIO LOPEZ, Pasa Tiempo Art Weekly, Santa Fe, New Mexico
"Diego's Butoh came from the roots and the energy it takes from his land (Mexico), then the expression appears through the face, hands and beyond; for that reason, his human body is standing up to reach the universe and dance the freedom." (translated from spanish)
RICARDO LEON PENA, La Prensa, New York City, New York
"The Piñón dance does not know about gender and can project the andorgynous philosophy confirming about the whole human gender." (translated from spanish)
SERGIO BURQUEZ, El Mexicano, BC, Mexico
"A modern dance of primitive movements, the Mexican Butoh dancer Diego Piñón creates images as strange and authentic as dreams. He is a virtuoso of this haunting Japanese modern dance form that attempts to give form to the unconscious rather than to entertain."
ANNE MARIE WELSH, The San Diego Union-Tribune
"I witnessed an expression of the human soul free of sex, personality, race and culture - both beautiful and ugly at the same time."
ANN MARIE STILLION, Flagstaff Live
"Piñón's Butoh style unmistakably reflects the death-celebrating traditions of his native Mexico"
". . . a totally mesmerizing performance."
RITA FELCIANO, The San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Piñón's movement borders between dance and meditation. He offers a transcendent sensuality, secretly showing the connection of love and war."
URSULA KNOBLACH, Main Post, Würzburg, Germany
"Butoh Mexicano combines two worlds, the Japanese idea of the human search inward for the ephemeral - the dance of Zen - and the sexual aspect of the Latin American Culture."
BARBARA KRAUPA, Nachrichten, Nürnberg, Germany
"He seemed, at once, a questing child, a curious animal and a messenger from some faraway universe."
"Mexicano Butoh Ritual Dance...you can see a blend of influences, his movement often seems inspired by the indigenous peoples of North America."
JENNIFER POYEN, The San Diego Union-Tribune