“The Gate Reopened is performed in the round and the dancers burst from the back of the dark warehouse as if by magic. They circle the enormous metal gate and make their way up to the platform one by one, sometimes springing, sometimes floating.” - The Dance Journal

“In partial dis-clothesure, the brave beauties, [the performers] were forced to dance so close to the audience, that by the end of the show we could see the Day-Glo paint that passed for pasties was cracking up… Was Gover tangoing or tangling with the penis as it rebounded dangerously in her face? All four poured baby oil over each other and took to writhing on the floor in the oleaginous ending.” - Philadelphia Inquirer

This year, Sanders hews to a morbid theme in this self-produced Fringe work, a ghoulishly touching show prompted by recent deaths of people close to him. If part of grief is healing and part of healing is laughter, then Sanders puts the nail in grief's coffin.’ - Philadelphia Inquirer

“Local choreographer and spectacle-creator Brian Sanders will celebrate 18 3/4 years with his dance company, JUNK - slithering, sliding, tumbling from all kinds of found objects.” - Philadelphia Inquirer

Sanders turns this wide visual expanse into an exquisitely choreographed mix of danger, force, and beauty, as his lost tribe brings to life a vision of what this place once was, with a new set of rules and rituals.

“[NoGravity] run[s] through all the phases of human evolutionary life, describing the efforts of man who tends upwards with the means more varied, to reach the serenity and lightness lost in the earthly paradise.” - Journal of Dance and Ballet

“…Urban Scuba show Sanders in a Speedo and flippers, balancing on his head in a bucket. Perspective comes into play in this show: The deep end of the pool minus the water is said to look very, very deep.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Brian Sanders delivers bawdy striking sight-gag-laden dance performed by an attractive, energetic and athletic cast. Most bits are performed to the songs from the movie Flashdance and the one done to “Maniac” alone is worth the price of admission.” - City Paper

“Each segment has a theme and a set of tools: in one, dancers crawl under garbage pails and enact a trash-can ballet; in another, a tutu-clad ballerina hovers just above the floor, defying gravity.” - The New Yorker

“In his new work, AdShock, Brian Sanders surpasses all he has ever done. He and his dancers are still airborne, but more “dancey” and still tinkering with mind-blowing ways to use the odd industrial found-object and the most fantastical spaces.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer

“In The Gate, Brian Sanders delivers a spectacle, filled with memorable moments, that is garish, breathtaking and beautiful, sometimes all at once.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer

A duct-taped bodice atop patten-leather stilts erupted from a unsuspecting closet door onto a gothic chessboard set - the entire floor of a reclaimed electroplating workshop, complete with modified machinery turned torture devices, royal platforms and thrones.

“Circuses thrive on wonder and thrills. These were generated not by death-defying acts but by some very clever costumes, created by Sanders himself, and special effects.” - Philadelphia Inquirer

“Precision dancing under the stars, and a waterslide - what more could you ask of Fringe performance? Brian Sanders’ Patio Plastico, performed by the Junk ensemble, delivered these and more in a sublimely goofy piece that at times slid into just plain sublime.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer

“In Junk, a program of 16 discrete dance pieces performed Thursday through last night at the Arts Bank, Brian Sanders and his three dancers used detritus that the choreographer found in dumpsters as props. The one-to 10-minute gems evoked hilarity, mystery and phantasmagoria. And from the audience, at least on Saturday, they evoked a standing ovation.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer

“[Sanders and others use] new things to say and original ways with old ones, and their private sacrificial rites are unselfconscious enough to be refreshing and intriguing, if at times perplexing. Sanders uses an amazing variety of music, and he has that rare gift among today’s angst-ridden dance-creators: a sense of humor.” - Philadelphia Inquirer

“Both the company and choreography show flashes of a new aesthetic just being born, a post-MTV approach to classicism that is looking for its voice and its place in the crush of traditional dance images.” -The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Archetype Dance Company’s premiere performance, “Still Birth Debut”, bowed before a young crowd of Troc regulars who took to the dance floor themselves after the last piece was over.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer