PRESS
“With startling use of animation and a movement vocabulary that ranged from MTV to avant-garde, Tsakos achieved the rarest of feats: she made a profound statement on the way we live now in an utterly original language.”
THE SUN POST
“Natasha Tsakos Invents the Future.”
“Natasha is like a visitor from the future--a bright future--on stage and in our online conversations. She instantly makes the audience think in new ways and question their limits! I can't imagine the TEDxBroadway community without her.”
Co-founder TEDxBroadway
“On EVERY stage Natasha has spoken on for us, she transfers the same positive, inspirational, inventive and amazing energy we are seeking!”
Co-founder TEDxBroadway
“Sleek and fierce, Natasha Tsakos could raise the hair on the backs of the bulls of Pamplona and steal the matador's cape.”
MIAMI HERALD
Jordan Levin
"I promise you it will be something you have never seen before"
THE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS
ANDREA F. WARREN, Ph.D, Executive Director
“A place in which Salvador Dalí or René Magritte might feel at home”
MIAMI HERALD
SHOW IS AN IMAGINATIVE, FRENZIED, TRIPPY JOURNEY
Christine Dolen
“Natasha is magical on stage and a tour de force off stage. One of the most extraordinary thought leaders of our time that moves exponential ideas into action. I consider her one of the most important voices of the future”
Social Entrepreneur & Impact Investor
"Tsakos is keeping the unusual bedfellows of live performance art and mainstream technology on solid ground, even as her grand and gripping work continues to take her only higher and higher."
TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
GET TO KNOW A GENIUS by Matthew Eng
“A new performance phenomenon!”
Evie Mpras
“Tsakos is a talent of the next generation”
FORIDA INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE
POWER PLAYERS : Headliners
"Tsakos hasn't stopped blowing minds."
"Tsakos is keenly aware humanity is at a tipping point in our evolution."
THE CREATORS PROJECT
James Carter
"True to TED’s promise of 'Inspired talks by the world's leading thinkers and doers', the line-up is as impressive as it is eclectic. From Bill Gates to Natasha Tsakos."
WHAT QUEBEC WANTS
"Natasha Tsakos epitomizes Miami’s astonishing energy and cultural richness"
OCEAN DRIVE
ALMOST FAMOUS Alix Sharkey
"Natasha Tsakos described a "system upgrade of theater" filled with projection mapping, virtual costume changes, and fast-paced information tailor-made for today's young generation"
THEATRE MANIA
TEDx Broadway Roundup Hayley Levitt
"Natasha Tsakos' performance art piece at the The Art Directors Club Awards was extraordinary."
CINDY GALLOP
CEO and advertising executive
"She is known for pioneering ways to integrate technology with live performance."
HAMPTON ROADS
Teresa Annas
"if you missed Tsakos, we recommend making note of her name for the future. If she continues to explore the connection between technology and performance, we have the feeling she might just end up in some history books."
AUSTINIST
THEATRE REVIEW UP WAKE III Jonathan Morgan
"The Swiss artist Natasha Tsakos wants to draw attention to the onset of climate change in the most unconventional methods. She was the opening act at Luxembourg Sustainability Forum, and had every eyes watching her."
RTL
CONSIDERING THE ART ON THE ENVIRONMENT
"Natasha Tsakos' presence at Human Impacts Miami was not only enlightening, but necessary"
HUMAN IMPACTS INSTITUTE
"Creatively Tsakos seems limitless"
LRM
UP, UP AND AWARE Samantha Riepe
"Get to Know a Genius: Natasha Tsakos"
TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
GET TO KNOW A GENIUS Matthew Eng
"One of the City's renown performance artist Natasha Tsakos"
THE HUFFINGTON POST
Amanda McCorquodale
"Natasha Tsakos is an actor-artist whose work pushes past traditional boundaries"
MIAMI HERALD
Christine Dolen
“This lady is amazing – talented and inspiring, to say the least. My sense is that she’s just begun to explore the depths of reality and cross the borders of an infinite imagination. What’s more, to have a social conscience – to connect and collaborate – makes her work a must-see for everyone!”
"Natasha Tsakos: Multi-Talented silence"
SWISS REVIEW
Wal Baur
"Impressively impactful"
h+ MAGAZINE
Peter Rothman
"Natasha Tsakos told us that theater is a voyage to 'all what if’s'"
Dreaming Audaciously at TEDx Broadway
Holly Rosen Fink
"Out of this world is right"
MIAMI LUXURY MAGAZINE
NATASHA MNEMONIC Anetta Nowosielska
"Electriza ‘OMEN’ con aventura multimedia"
PERIDODICO AM
Vania Jaramillo
“Elegant and exquisitely graceful, Tsakos is like a female Bill Irwin, or like Marcel Marceau on ecstasy”
MIAMI NEW TIMES
THE SUBSTANCE OF ZERO Octavio Roca
“Natasha Tsakos, Nuestro Principito”
EL NUEVO HERALD
"I imagine future business presenters will be combining Natasha’s ideas with real time data visualizations driven by big data and corporate analytics systems, using projections and mixed reality to communicate, collaborate, and convince."
h+ MAGAZINE
Peter Rothman
“A Masterpiece”
MIAMI NEW TIMES
THE SUBSTANCE OF ZERO Octavio Roca
“The Swiss-born Tsakos has performed with Cirque du Soleil; her ideas tend toward the eye-popping visual magic, dreaminess and derring-do of Cirque's shows.”
HAMPTON ROADS
Teresa Annas
“Esta artista, aclamada mundialmente, es como una fusion entre Marcel Marceau y Charlie Chaplin.... pero hi-tech.”
OCEAN DRIVE ESPANOL
NATASHA TSAKOS: POSEIDA POR EL CLOWN by Jesus Huarte
"For Tsakos, computer technology, including motion capture, 3-D imaging and animation, is a way to create a theatre that speaks to the new generation."
THEATRE BAY AREA
VISUAL PLAY: TAKING THEATRE OUT OF ITS BOX by Clayton Lord
"A woman of ambition and success, sure to be something worth paying attention to."
GREEK REPORTER
Natasha Tsakos: A Remarkable and Innovative Artist by Anastasios Papapostolou
"Scintillating performance by Natasha Tsakos"
WASTE MANGEMENT WORLD
LUIS VALENZUELA TO ROCK SUSTAINATOPIA 2011 WITH HIS RECYCLED GOWNS
"A perfect jewel of a performance"
MIAMI NEW TIMES
THE SUBSTANCE OF ZERO Octavio Roca
"La suiza Tsakos, literalmente, levantó de sus sillas a los presentes."
LA NACIÓN
Alejandra Vargas
"I have read "Colours, a nonsense", and I have never written this to anyone: It is a small masterpiece"
RUTH RESNIKOFF
Director of Play Readings, Mosaic Theatre
"El final vertiginoso trajo los aplausos , y reconocimiento de los espectadores, al espectáculo ‘OMEN’"
PERIDODICO AM
Vania Jaramillo
“Natasha Tsakos is Virtual Magic”
KNIGHT ARTS
Neil de la Flor
“Riveting”
MIAMI HERALD
A VIVID SHOWCASE FOR VITAL MIAMI TALENT
Jordan Levin
“Best Dance Performance of the Year, Natasha Tsakos’ UP WAKE”
THE SUN POST
“The Next Big Thing”
MIAMI HERALD
TROPICAL LIFE Brett O’Bourke
“Natasha Tsakos is a radiant, composed and enigmatic”
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS & VIEWS
Lynn Roberson
“An unforgettable experience”
SUNPOST
“Delgado's film features a stunning performance by Natasha Tsakos, who portrays the anguish of the 108 human delusions.”
MIAMI NEW TIMES
SLEEPLESS NIGHT MIAMI BEACH
Carlos Suarez de Jesus
“Tout cela est mené à un rythme endiablé, alternant merveilleux, douceur, terreur, rire et réflexion pour amener les spectateurs à faire des rêves éveillés et ressentir les plaisirs et les dangers de la vie contemporaine”
INTER FRANCE
“OMEN , took the audience on a stunning 20 minute highly stylized, high-tech virtual cirque-esque journey that critiques human history.”
KNIGHT ARTS
NATASHA TSAKOS IS VIRTUAL MAGIC
Neil de la Flor
“Not unlike Charlie Chaplin”
"Something out of a Tim Burton film"
BISCAYNE BOULEVARD TIMES
NATASHA TSAKOS’ FOURTH UP WAKE INSTALLMENT
Victor Barrenechea
“Tsakos uses a shifted language for the 21st Century. And who knows, perhaps one day, her audiovisual language will take a trip on a rocket ship, and Natasha Tsakos will dance amongst the stars.”
THE CREATORS PROJECT
James Carter
“Natasha Tsakos (…) A highly charismatic, ambitious and multitalented figure in the scene”
MAP MAGAZINE
THE THESPIANS Danny Brody
“Tsakos, the accomplished performance artist marries her inventive virtual world with sociological messages projected around her in 3D animation with electric sound and movement”
MIAMI LUXURY MAGAZINE
NATASHA MNEMONIC Anetta Nowosielska
“The ability to morph her face in such a way as to make the most obscure emotions instantly recognizable, the capacity to undulate her body so that it represents whole concepts”
LAS OLAS MAGAZINE
Samantha Riepe
“The audience is plunged into Tsakos dreamscape”
“Energy and creativity burst out of Tsakos”
MIAMI NEW TIMES
DREAM THEME Frank Houston
“Truly unique and very visual”
DECO DRIVE
Geoff Leval
“The line that received the loudest applause was spoken by performance artist Natasha Tsakos. In response to a question about target audiences”
THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP
Diep Tran
“Disney and UP WAKE are both big budget productions”
THE FUTURE DIGITAL LIFE
“Natasha Tsakos doesn't need to consult the backchannel to know her presentations are beyond fabulous.”
THE IMAGINATION AGE
“Your Climax show was SPECTACULAR! The heavens brought you to us.”
ART DIRECTORS CLUB
Ignacio Oreamuno, Executive Director
“With startling use of animation, a magical briefcase, and a movement vocabulary that ranged from MTV to avant-garde, Tsakos achieved the rarest of feats: she made a profound statement on the way we live now in an utterly original language.”
THE SUN POST
“A highly, highly polished work that felt more like a Robert Wilson production”
AUSTINIST
“Up Wake is filled with eye-candy, screeching, popping, whiz-band sound effects and the occasional bad ass beat”
AUSTINIST THEATRE REVIEW
Jonathan Morgan
“Phenomenal success. Truly innovational.”
MIAMI LIVING
“Natasha Tsakos, guiada solo por hambre de conocimiento, gran Imaginacion y talento”
EL NUEVO HERALD
NATASHA TSAKOS, NUESTRO PRINCIPITO
Norma Niurka
“ An adventurous, whimsical, provocative performance piece.”
“Tsakos is a ''clown'' in the style of Bill Irwin or the very polished performers you'd find in a Cirque du Soleil company.”
MIAMI HERALD
SHOW IS AN IMAGINATIVE, FRENZIED, TRIPPY JOURNEY
Christine Dolen
"A solo piece that mixes computer animation, house music, silence and the artist's gifted stage presence."
“ A bittersweet funny, tragic world with existentialist shades of Samuel Beckett and especially Marcel Marceau.”
MIAMI NEW TIMES
RAY OF LOCAL LIGHT Octavio Roca
“Esta labor se manifestó en la manera en que se instaló en el escenario, en la seguridad con la que desenvolvía la madeja de su propuesta conceptual, haciendo uso de divertimentos que provocaban la risa franca en el público, para en el instante siguiente cambiar la expresión al verse esclavizada a un maletín, representando la carga que la rutina, y el mundo mismo le asignaban.”
EL MANANA
PASION SORPRENDENTE Mario Villarreal
“This truly innovational piece merges pantomime with some of the newest technology and special effects in existence.”
MIAMI LIVING
"Una artista que no se conforma con crear y producir obras de gran calidad, sino que además se da el lujo de perturbar al espectador atento, de invitarlo a hacer una lectura de su discurso, entre otras tantas posibles, al tiempo que lo incita a replantearse su estar aquí en el mundo."
AZTECA
NATASHA TSAKOS Y LA DESAZON DEL SER CONTEMPORANEO
Gregorio Martínez Moctezuma
“La protagonista de este magnifico evento fue Natasha Tsakos, quien atraves de sus movimientos y de las imágenes y textos que se proyectaron en gigantescas pantallas, hace que los concurrentes realizen un viaje virtual.”
EL SOL DE TAMPICO
NATASHA TSAKOS PRESENTO UN PERFORMNACE VIRTUAL
Silvia R. Ibarra
"The complexity and depth of Natasha Tsakos' "Omen""
KNIGHT FOUNDATION
KNIGHT BLOG, Neil de la Flor