Paula Citron, 2002 - The Globe and Mail
Rea's new solo, flux ... Symbols abound in the piece. Rea is garbed in a skirt of Newspaper pages and the incessant rustle is also part of the dance, particularly when she takes off the skirt and wears it like fragile wings. Gravity is more than being rooted to the ground. It also involves rolling around the floor, on, we discover later, a hidden blue beach ball -- and this bizarre movement heightens the chains that bind her on earth, despite the straining and yearning of the intense motion of her upper body. The ball, in fact, becomes a character in the fable, a voiceless companion that epitomizes her loneliness anchored in the horrors of today's headlines. Her clumsy attempts to fly with a rope also convey bondage, even conjuring up a noose that is a symbol of death, as if finally achieving what she wants is another form of imprisonment. It is the dark undercurrents of flux that continue to haunt the viewer long after.