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"Manzanales’ Con Brazos Abiertos is an exceptional, heart-tugging beauty..." - LA Times
"Manzanales -- a choreographer to watch"
- Broadway World
Michelle manzanales
"Ballet Hispánico has a real jewel in Michelle Manzanales’s “Con Brazos Abiertos,” one that deserves to be seen by a wider audience. It’s not often that a dance manages to capture our hybrid American nature with such a light touch."
- New York Times

"Sor Juana
is a must see."
- Critical Dance
"Paloma Querida is a
visual masterpiece..."
- Chicago Tribune
"Manzanales' "Sugar in the Raw" -- with its hypnotic movement motifs, its use of space and gesture...is masterful and could easily became one of the troupe's signature pieces." - Chicago Sun-Times
"Ms. Manzanales’s [Hope is the Thing with Feathers] sends [the dancers] over the stage as if impelled by a summer breeze, building and sustaining a momentum that beguiles with its lightness and fleetness as might a feather teasing and tickling the senses."
- Wall Street Journal
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