Collected Press

“How heavy are my thoughts is not only lucid and sharp, but as a performance carefully formulated and very self-reflexive. To pass on thoughts, one needs a medium, but what with the thinking itself? No better place for researching thinking in time and space than in the context of theatre.”
Jeroen Peeters, De Morgen

“Next to the physical presence of I.M. it is the character of some of the tests that suggests that How Heavy Are My Thoughts can not only be interpreted as sharp and linguistically philosophical, but it also has a great poetic strength… A Victorian heroine worthy.”
Jeroen Versteele, Etcetera

“Seldom we have seen performances that stayed faithful to their subject, reached their intentions with the public, and, on top of that, were presented in an enormously fine-tuned format. How Heavy Are My Thoughts is the wholly enjoyable and recommendable piece of work of a promising young artist, from whom we can hopefully expect many more beautiful and quality pieces.”
Tom de Vreese, Cutting Edge

“The extremely personal approach to the subject is fascinating and seems to have its own internal logic.”
Marcelle Schots, Theatermaker

“It’s all very witty and delightful, with some interesting scientific facts and philosophical meditation thrown in for good measure, both light thoughs and heavy ones.”
Chelsea Cain, The Oregonian, USA

“One important European voice in the program is Croatian choreographer Ivana Müller, 33, whose potent work straddles the borders of theater, dance and the visual arts in a wry, singular way…
Müller’s unique approach to the body is exemplified in How Heavy, which may not be told through conventional dance but remains solidly choreographed from start to finish.”
Gia Kourlas, Time Out, New York

“Despite the layers of irony and fiction, or actually because of them, the lecture did have something to say in an extra-diegetic comment on the tendencies to yoke together science and performance (…) It wasn’t a straightforward criticism of these trends however but a performative play with process-as-product and the demands to articulate practice within intellectual conventions which can be reiterated in unexpected and enjoyable ways through performance.”
Dance Theatre Journal