After one week of performances, Dance for a Dollar is already getting great reviews from audiences and the media.

Marty Hughley from The Oregonian writes “For folks far from their birthplace, striving to create new lives in a new country, what’s better than a dose of familiar music and dance to cure the homesickness?” and continues with “Dance for a Dollar…. tells the stories of several Latino immigrants facing loneliness and alienation as they adjust to the United States”

After joining us for the preview, Mitch Lillie from the Willamette Week comments,”Most of the men, like Gabriel (an ever-energetic Carlos Alexis Cruz), are sending money back to Mexico to support their families, or, like the Orthodox Jew Jacobo (Orion Bradshaw), simply want to dance without the trappings of social protocol,” adding, “Dance for a Dollar is successful as a meditation on the romantic effects of migration. Mexican ranchera singer Vicente Fernández wails this sentiment beautifully over the Las Palmas PA in his classic “Volver Volver”: “I know how to lose/I want to go back, go back, go back.”

On Facebook, Gino Reye Borges, writes, “The talent in this play should put Latin Actors on the regional and national view. Casting Directors for Grimm and Portlandia please notice actress Veronika Núñez, she’s an actor’s actor. Pure talent.” Also on Facebook, actress Sofía Tlamatiliztli May-Cuxim writes, “Extraordinarily moving! Well done, all. The dances are lively and full of pain. The stories are sad and hopeful. This is an emotive, poignant and melancholy journey”

See for yourself! Dance for a Dollar continues with performaces through May 25. For info/tickets: call: 503-236-7253 or www.milagro.org