„The relation of space and body is one of the topics discussed and written quite often in dance. With every new dance piece it is re-questioned and re-formulated. Except site-specific works, there is not much dance pieces where the audience is integrated to the piece through the materials and dancers’ bodies. The successful examples are very few. „Reverbs“ is one of them, one of the rare and succesful examples. Özlem Alkis’s two dance pieces „reverbs” and „dust devil” were the most succesful and impressive performances of the 2018/2019 dance season in Istanbul“. 

“Alkis really make you experience the show for the sake of the show. No more questions. It’s subtle, effective and impressive. And definitely a successful end of the season (Reverbs – in tanzhaus nrw).”

“The three of them stuffed flour bales in their mouths. They dust them in spurts, human fog machines. The three dancers are so many things: breeze and rushes of leaves, storm rays and wood creaking, roaring waves and howling ghosts. They breathe, blow and dance natural phenomena. Enduring, consistent and above all funny. Özlem Alkis’ choreography “Dust Devil” is a successful, humorous finale and highlight of the festival’s first evening of “638 Kilo Tanz und weitere Delikatessen”.

“A fruitful collaboration also resulted between the choreographer Özlem Alkis and the musician Rafael Nassif. In Alkis’ performance “Dust Devil”, the dancers blow clouds of flour into the air and produce sounds, deep from the throat, somewhere between singing, noise and screaming”.