“Chicago Tap Theatre’s loving tribute to 65-year-old modern-rhythmic dance barrier-breaker Bill Evans is an experience of intimate and symphonic proportions. The concert placed tap on a deep, conceptual scale while reveling in the body’s natural tongue-in-cheek rhythms.”

"Yonally performed two improvographies, Night in Tunisia, with great musical sensitivity to rhythmic phrasing, and Tapgo with subtle tango rhythms articulated by legs and feet as his torso hovered above."

"The enlightening evening, with works choreographed by Chicago Tap's artistic director Mark Yonally and Tapage's leader, Valerie Lussac, demonstrated each company's distinctive yet complementary qualities. Yonally's soft, lilting dance style is well suited to Lussac's delicate intricacy. And, because both ensembles break free of standard face-front tap structure rooted in pure-rhythmic interpretation, they have an affinity for acting, embrace the idea of meaningful stillness and draw unexpected sounds form their shoes.

"Imagine some 20 tap dancers performing in a room that's, oh, maybe 30 feet by 30 feet. The floor was bouncing so hard during the rehearsal I watched I couldn't keep my pen on the paper. But the experience was undeniably thrilling Tapage's Tango Suite, like much of Yonally's choreography, is surprisingly sexy: who knew the effect a dragged toe could have."