“Overground Dance Theatre Company” has received international critical acclaim by offering the NY theatre and dance scene the richness of Bulgarian art and culture for more than 7 years, staging and producing unparalleled “boutique” multidisciplinary performance art that has contributed immensely to the development of the bilateral cultural relations between the U.S. and Bulgaria.”

Source: Bulgarian Art & Culture Bulletin, NY, 2009. Dr. Nikolay Milkov, Ambassador, Consul General of the Republic of Bulgaria in New York   

“Avatar – an ultra-contemporary theatrical pastische weaving traditional modern dance & theatre idiom. Magnificently structured and superbly performed work, a digital epiphany breaking away from the confines of the theatrical didactic and embracing the associative logic of multi-media art…”

Source: Keva Apostolova, Editor in Chief of Bulgarian Theatre Magazine, June Edition, 2009

“…Profound, subtle, unconventional, an arresting way of deciphering the Da Vinci Code through contemporary dance, sacred chants, video and theatre. A powerful and intelligent work that moves you…Overground brings together dancers from Russia, Holland, Morocco, Korea, Italy, Japan and Bulgaria in a worldly show featuring a striking 21st-century avant-garde dance…”

Source: Linda Stasi, NY Post, June 2009

“Overground Dance Company trespasses the boundaries of conventional form and offers a new depth of vision. Avatar tools draw from renown theatre reformers to conceive an enigmatic patchwork of Jerzhi Grotovsky, Bertold Breht, Antonin Artaud and Pina Bausch – true 21 c theatre – dynamic, polyphonic, multifaceted, “virtureal”, mysterious and concrete…”

Source: Anthony Patellis – La Mama Producer and Director, June NY ‘09

“Theosophy in Action… Opus Magnum of Esoteric Theatre in New York ... The Bulgarian Company for Contemporary Dance and Theatre Overground paints corporally a magic symphony of movement, music, drama, opera and media… Overground is Theosophy in Modern Dress, and Avatar – a thrilling multi-layered pastische that interprets the Gnostic gospel of Mary Magdalene with the tools of avantgarde world theatre…”

Source: Odin Townley – Theosophy Journal ‘09

“…By offering something rather than a cliché ridden movement and superficial themes Overground Dance Theatre Company provides dance nourishment for audiences starved of food for reflection…”

Source: David Lipfert, Attitude Magazine, NY, January 2007

“In combining modern and traditional varieties of these various art forms, Katrandjieva deliberately avoids hammering out a synthesis as an earlier generation of multiculturalists might have done. Instead she allows a sort of coexistence without forcing connections and interrelations onto the audience, who become partners in the creative act, a performance with ambitious scope, a multi-faceted originality where deep philosophy unfolds…”

Source: David Lipfert, Attitude Magazine, NY April 2004

“Breathtaking, innovative, spiritual...an original collage of dance, ritual, drama and painting bridging tradition and modernity…provoking food for the mind…a theatrical catharsis that should not be missed…”

Source: Linda Stasi, NY Post, December 2004