New York Times Critics Picks for the 2002 Year in Review:

“…uncommonly committed performers in choreography as vivid and true as a Eudora Welty story.”

“Ms. Hummel is a promising modern-dance choreographer with her own take on the world and on the kinds of quirkily, sweetly private things dance can express and the ways it expresses them. It is probably the kiss of death these days to describe choreography as delightful, but Ms. Hummel’s dances are just that, as well as poignant, funny and remarkably assured and perceptive for so young as artist. At this point in her young career… she works with dancers who look as if they believed they owned the choreography.”
- Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

“Shannon Hummel is an impressively savvy and imaginative young choreographer. Ms. Hummel is clearly a young choreographer of exceptional promise. (CORA) is a group of fine actors-dancers who perform with a proprietary commitment that make the pieces glow.”
- Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times