Arts Air - Caruso Wows and Bodiography Entertains in Butler Program

Arts Air - Joint Bodiography and Graham 2 Program a Triumph

How Was It? Pittsburgh - Bodiography's Multiplicity 2018

Pittsburgh Post Gazette - 2019 - Bodiography's Maria Caruso knows what it's like to dance like Martha Graham.

Pittsburgh Current - 2019 - Bodiography's Historic Collaboration A Windfall For Area Dance Fans.

Pittsburgh Post Gazette - 2019 - 10 who are raising the dance bar(re) in Pittsburgh in 2019

2018 Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Dance Community Helps in Aftermath of Tree of Life Shooting

2018 Arts Air - Caruso Wows and Bodiography Entertains in Butler Program

2018 City Paper - For Whom Was it a Game Changing Summer?

2018 Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Maria Caruso Takes on Challenge of Daunting Martha Graham Solo Work

2018 Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Who's Raising the Barre in Pittsburgh

2017 City Paper - A Year in Dance

2017 - La Roche College Magazine

2016 Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Bodiography Presents Diverse Lineup in Unseen

2015 City Paper - Bodiography Founder Stages Her Swan Song

2015 Post Gazette - Bodiography's Maria Caruso Gets Poignant Farewell Performance

2014 Tribune Review - Bodiography Founder Reaches Beyond the Basics

"Through brilliant choreography and original music, the dialogue between dance and medicine seems surprisingly natural and unforced as if the parallel between these widely different disciplines were, like a new continent, simply waiting to be discovered."

Michael Simms / Coal Hill Review

"Bodiography has achieved new heights, leaving the audience and cast distinctively touched to their very core."

Adrienne Totino / Dance Examiner

"Ms. Caruso's choreography was at its best when it moved dancers across the stage and had levels of crescendos and stillness."

Sara Bauknecht / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Licensed by and trained rigorously by the répétiteurs at the Martha Graham Dance Company to perform "Lamentations," Caruso was breathtaking in her bravura performance of it. Set to Zoltán Kodály's "Andante poco rubato, Op. 3, No. 2" from his 1910 Nine Pieces for Piano, Caruso, seated on a bench, was technically spot-on tugging, pulling and manipulating the famous purple tube-like costume into triangles, squares and rhomboids. On loan from the Graham Dance Company and made of the original non-stretch fabric, the costume was no easy feat to work and Caruso did so while adroitly capturing the passionate expression of sorrow contained within the 4-minute solo. Easily one of 2018's best performances by a Pittsburgh-area artist, sadly this would be the last time Caruso was licensed to perform the solo." -

Steve Sucato / Arts Air

"There was a rawness and vulnerability to the performance that kept it from becoming cliche or one-dimensional. It was honest, poignant and personal yet colored with enough universal themes (love, loss, acceptance, longing and searching) that allowed audience members to have a connection with it, and even shed a few tears."

Sara Bauknecht / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Constricted by long red fabric that kept her movement bound and confined, she traveled across the stage with the feeling and emotion that only a dancer of her caliber and maturity could perform. With the stellar technique of a highly trained ballerina or professional modern dancer, one would swear that Caruso could perform any style of dance with absolute precision."

Adrian Totino / Dance Examiner

"Her movement crescendoed into bold leaps and big extensions. Her expression lightened with heartfelt emotion."

Adrienne Totino / Dance Examiner

"Maria Caruso was on fire for her solo piece... her jazzier dance vocabulary aggressed the ballet movement and pulled it forth into our era, not the past. Her movement should be in cinema. It defies expectations."

Romella Kitchens / Coal Hill Review