[…] Deschênes is a well known French-Canadian performance artist working in the dance / mixed media tradition of Alvin Nicolais. And like Nicolais, she has a brilliant mind for effect. […] Judging from the adulations of the audience, the experience must have evoked some of the same fever as the 1951 production in Paris of The Veil of Orpheus with musique concrète by Pierre Henry. […]