Recent press of MoMA performance
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/arts/dance/pageant-experimental-dance-moma.html

Recent press for Control
Ayano Elson’s Control by Tess Michaelson for Brooklyn Rail
Invisible Parts of the Show by Jack Meriwether for CultureBot
Editors Selects by Miya Shaffer for Impulse Magazine

”In fact, Control left hardly any room for a breath of boredom. It seared. Gyrated slowly, body upon body, world upon world. Elson, whose most recent work includes Distances (The Kitchen, 2025) and Part Song/Immortal Life (Danspace Project, 2024), has long demonstrated an interest in building tension-fueled dance works that tease out the edges of silence and duration. Here, she furthers that interest into an almost excruciatingly precise, pristine, and beautiful work as she manipulates the proportions of tension with an exacting, obsessive hand that evokes equal parts aggression and tenderness. In so doing, Elson showcases gripping dexterity in negative physical and psychic space, a finely tuned and deeply sensuous understanding of the polymorphic rhythms of reality as such.” —Tess Michaelson

Press for Part Song/Immortal Life
Danspace Journal: Reflections: A Shared Evening with Ayano Elson + Wendell Gray II by Noa Rui-Piin Weiss
New York Times: Fall Preview: Dance Performances, Festivals and More Coming This Fall

Press for Dancing
New York Times: At First, It Was Beachy. Then It Became a New York City Dance
New York Times: Best Dance Performances of 2025
New York Times: Finding ‘Ghost Collaborators’ for an All-American Ballet
Washington Post: Visiting a place where poetry is vibrantly alive
New York Times Review: In ‘Corps,’ Running Aspirational Dance Drills
New York Times: A Celebratory and Scrappy Farewell (and Hello) in Queens
New York Times: At MoMA, How Judson Blew Up the Rules of Dance
New York Times: A Choreographer’s Reflections on Transience