Dunning of The NYT said "Ms. Pawel and her charmingly oddball dancers of all ages are not afraid to follow their own drummers, not just into the future but also into a comfortable, friendlier past."

As the Times said of the Laura Pawel Dance Company, “The dancers form a true ensemble, smoothly winding in and out of talk and choreography drawn from improvisation". The company returns to Chen Dance Center with all live music as always. This year's premiere is “Cloudy, with a chance of rain”, an intensely sensitive trio with music by experimental composer Phil Stone. The program will include "Tete-a-Tete," an audience favorite for Berkheimer and Pawel which is a conversation in motion danced to music composed by Gene Caprioglio and performed by the duo Barebones (Caprioglio on guitar and Dr. 88 on harmonica). This duet contrasts with “Comfortable Silence”, a striking vision of parallel connections enlivened by the jazz of the Cecilia Coleman quartet – piano, trumpet, saxophone and bass. Barebones' responsive music enriches “Sunset Beach”, a meditation on youth, age and travel, while Coleman's band begins with sparse percussion which develops into a rich jazz score just as “Plain and Fancy” goes from stark to strange complexity.