"A sly duality infects a scene between Pimsler and his longtime life and artistic partner Suzanne Costello.  

As he advances towards her, gesticulating and muttering gibberish, she calmly orchestrates his tumult by saying things like,

"be a little less funny, yeah, just a little sad. But not too sad." It's as if a verbose Samuel Beckett character came striding

into a carefully calibrated Harold Pinter drama.  Here are individuals engaged in a witty and sinister power play that seems both highly

personal and universal. As in all of these evocative duets, the actions are clear, the motives richly complex."

~ Linda Shapiro (2009)

 "The dancers approach the choreography with exquisite abandon.  

They reveal the urgency of expectation and the vulnerability that comes with a bared soul."

~ Caroline Palmer, Star Tribune (2009)

"Pimsler's skill in shaping dance drama is most apparent in several multifaceted duets.  

With a queasy mix of animal playfulness and menace . . ."

~ Linda Shapiro, Dance Magazine (2009)  

 "When we say a work is 'adult,' we usually mean it contains nudity, or that it's depressing.  

But Pimsler's work is adult in another sense:  full of the vivid and complex emotion of adult life."

~ Lightsey Darst, MNArtists.org (2009) 

"A caster of spells."

~ Alan M. Kriegsman, The Washington Post 

"One of the most literate, thoughtful choreographers in town."

~ Christy DeSmith, The Rake Magazine (2008)

"Stuart Pimsler is a tremendously intelligent choreographer. He envelops such tough

subjects as war, human culpability and gender battles with aesthetic cloaks of desperate beauty."

~ Camille LeFevre, Minneapolis Star Tribune (2008)

"The combined companies (Dancing Wheels & SPDT) function as a seamless ensemble,

and the wheelchairs and folding chairs are integrated so naturally that you wonder

how much more inventiveness Pimsler can pull from his choreographic hat."

~ Donald Rosenberg, Cleveland Plain Dealer (2008)

"The work of SPDT is passionate, intelligent, humorous, inventive, energetic and bold."

~ Michael Bigelow Dixon for Linda Shapiro, St. Paul Pioneer Press (2007)

"Layering humor, pathos, smart talk and carefully honed movement with live music by

Michelle Kinney, Pimsler and his gifted company propel the audience from

contemporary skirmishes in the battle of the sexes to a mythical world."

~ Linda Shapiro, St. Paul Pioneer Press (2007)

"There's plenty of wow factor in the performance - surprise, amazement and pleasure - that

comes from the dancers' virtuosic physical expression of ideas about love."

~ Michael Bigelow Dixon for Camille LeFevre, Twin Cities Metropolitan Magazine (2007)

"Pimsler and Costello create drama that rattles your bones,

even as it subtly penetrates your pores."

~ Linda Shapiro, City Pages (2005)

"...the company's trademark humanism and wit shines through in refreshingly accessible works."

~ Camille LeFevre, Minneapolis Star Tribune (2005)

"Stuart Pimsler has assembled a program of three lush, complex and beautifully

performed works. Imbued with intiguing and elusive poignancy,

they leave behind an emotional vapor trail."

~ Camille LeFevre, Minneapolis Star Tribune (2004)

"The former New Yorker is a master of physical comedy, interlacing

spoken text with rythmic movement that speaks volumes."

~ Camille LeFevre, Minneapolis Star Tribune (2002)

"Pimsler and Costello make tasty meat-and-potatoes dance theater with gently

whimsical, emotionally moving garnishes."

~ Donald Hutera, Minneapolis Star Tribune (2000)

"A performance by Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater is real life experienced in a dream.

Or seen through a kaleidoscope. Or heard in the dark."

~ Charlotte Lowe, Tucson Weekly (1998)