"Sculptured memories and reflections tantalize in a spectral ballet like wisps of smoke; the analytical reflection inside such undercurrents is delicious work for the reader. Complexity and diversity of conscious life can be imagined as generously flashing before the eyes-as in a last, desperately drawn out, critical moment."

--Miguel Escobar

"In the dance, what is implicate unfolds only to surrender once more to the whole. DIRGE moves, lives at the difficult, intimate cusp of knowing, which is also the cusp of being. Embodied, distilled, [un]veiled, spent, its insights evanesce and yet, like all profundity, linger."

--Sharon Lattig

"Earth as detritus, beckons language of its turmoil . . . DIRGE is a swept windstorm among the assemblages of our times, an

unfurling rhizome for survival."

--Edwin Torres

"Jopek's words will have you gripped in a sensation to host your own shadow in the beauty of your own brokenness."

--Sheikha A

"Is metaphysical hopscotch a stage for modern ballet? condensed, relational, generative as fructifying?

so full of life and kindness are these ballets,

it's easy to forget they're dirges..."

--Chris Stroffolino