“DelPan-Monely remains faithful to the chaotic collage structure throughout as they make a broad tonal shift from humorously pleasant to casually contemplative. ”
“That’s a Handful translates so many topics from our daily lives through dance in ways that leave me with a new awareness of my own hands and the effects they have on the world around me.”
THAT’s A HANDFUL!
Velocity Dance Center
October 2023
“The number also shows what works so well about Alyza Delpan-Monley’s choreography, it’s loose and fun and it lets the actors inject their own personalities into the steps. The movement further provides a that feeling that the audience is watching four actors naturally working together as friends to try and build a show.
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Snowed In (again)
ArtsWest
December 2024
Arts Advocate Award
Intiman Theatre
2022
“Alyza is super active in the Seattle dance community, and they show up in a lot of ways — teacher, collaborator, director, choreographer, dancer, volunteer, sounding board, to name a few. In all of these roles they are a caring, curious, and imaginative being who is also a fierce advocate for open and equitable frameworks of art-making. We see them shaping processes that are making the Seattle dance community more innovative, more accessible, more fun (!!), and more loving. ”
BEAuty and the beast
5th Avenue Theatre
2021
“It’s hard to describe why the rug was so funny. The head-hole cut directly into the bright magenta fabric was funny. The weird shapes the actor made when they pressed their hands and feet into the rug’s corners and then danced around the stage like an electrified flying squirrel were funny. It was all funny. The actor on opening night, Alyza DelPan-Monley, deserves a bonus.”
“choreography by Alyza DelPan-Monley is inventive and compelling”
CABARET
Gilbert & Sullivan Society
2019
DANCE NATION
Washington Ensemble Theater
February 2020
“DelPan-Monley, who created the choreography in collaboration with the cast, always brings something unexpected to a show’s movement, and in Dance Nation, it’s a shouldn’t-work-but-does combination of the awkward and the sublime.”
‘Terrifying to do and so much fun’: Teen angst is for all ages in new play ‘Dance Nation’
- Misha Berson, Cascade PBS
miku, and the gods.
ArtsWest Theater
March 2022
“I remained captivated for the entire show thanks to the performers’ energy, playwright Julia Izumi’s wonderful wonder-filled dialogue (antimetabole intended), and director Alyza DelPan Monley’s raw yet thoughtful staging”
- Roxanne Ray, International Examiner
()ELP
This That & The Other
Velocity Dance Center
May 2017
“In ()ELP, Alyza DelPan-Monley organizes the space, the audience, and everything else in the theater exactly as she wants them, creating a little nest out of blankets downstage left, stashing a grocery sack full of props on stage right, enlisting part of the audience to hold her tools, and help her adjust her costume. In her world, there doesn’t seem to be a fourth wall (between the performer and the audience) at all – we’re all along for the ride. Her solo is full of whimsical moments, most of them intentional. The work is highly eccentric, her performance skipping from image to image, leaving the audience with a kind of photo album from an alternative world, full of unusual sweetness.”
Into the deeps
DangerSwitch!
May 2017
FOOTLIGHT AWARDS
December 2017
Proving that small budgets don’t have to preclude wild fits of imagination, director DeHais and choreographer DelPan-Monley livened fringe stages all over, making nightmares menacingly tactile in Annex’s “Scary Mary” and undersea movement elegant and frenetic in dance/performance hybrid “Into the Deeps.” Book-It Repertory Theatre tapped Table Flip, their movement team with Ryan Higgins, to inject new musical “Howl’s Moving Castle” with a touch of magic, and DelPan-Monley physicalized the digital with her choreography for WET’s “Teh Internet is Serious Business.”
-Dusty Somers, Seattle Times
Howl's Moving Castle
Book-it Repertory Theater
December 2017
Building Book-It's Magical Musical 'Howl's Moving Castle'
"they have an incredible collective eye for physical detail. Tiny changes make a huge difference—the angle of a lean, the speed of a head-turn. Suddenly, by giving actors simple movement and airtight timing, they’ve created a stage illusion that a Witch is making the hats in Sophie’s hat shop levitate—and with personality."
GYPSY ROSE LEE
Nomination
2017
Excellence in Choreography or Movement: Teh Internet is Serious Business
http://seattlegayscene.com/2018/01/7th-annual-gypsy-awards-nominations-announced-honoring-seattle-theater/