“Anne Nguyen turns the hip-hop dancer into a modern-day hero, representative of the youngsters who struggle within precarious and violent environments. A hero who’s attached to his art, which is first and foremost a culture and a lifestyle – in spite of all political distortions.”
La Terrasse – Nathalie Yokel (17 December 2022)
“Anne Nguyen has contributed and keeps contributing to what hip-hop is today: first as a pioneer of female breakdancing, then as an author of theater pieces, poems, films and now a video game. At the avant-garde of this movement, today she is one of the rare choreographers who are successful while being close to the original spirit of hip-hop. Nguyen’s deepest preoccupations are to bring people closer together, to push forward the limits of hip-hop and to inspire everyone to dance.”
Tanz — Thomas Hahn (July 2021) / Germany
“Autarcie (….) succeeded in creating its own world, using the language of hip-hop to say something.”
The New York Times (October 2016) / USA
“It could be described as a sort of b-boying performance in the style of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. Or rather a kind of breakdance integrating the concepts of William Forsythe. Choreographer Anne Nguyen is used to these kinds of comments about her work. She understands the comparison as she is keen to deconstruct hip-hop vocabulary in order to reconstruct it, like a puzzle, to build her complex choreographies to increasing acclaim.”
Libération – Eve Beauvallet (5 May 2015)
“No-one in hip-hop has reinvented the art of the dance move in the way that she has. Anne Nguyen is to breakdance or popping what the research of Merce Cunningham or Lucinda Childs is to contemporary dance: an extremely lucid look at choreographic composition and movement, the overall effect resulting in an abstraction that overflows with musicality, dynamism and joy.”
Artistik Rezo – Thomas Hahn (5 May 2015)
“Since 2005, Anne Nguyen follows her pared down yet imperious artistic line, carving straight and sharp without deviating from her aspirations, even less from the fundamentals of her discipline. With a scientific background, she puts hip-hop movement through the mill to extract spectacular equations, uncluttered yet always surprising. A love of constraints and a passion to sublimate them: typical Nguyen.”
Le Monde Magazine – Rosita Boisseau (13 April 2012)