SF Chronicle - Mary Ellen Hunt, Special to the Chronicle 33nd Ethnic Dance Festival June 2011 "The Parangal Dance Company offered Filipino-inspired "Subanen," a mélange of ceremonial evocations, from an ethereal dance for women delicately balancing bowls on their heads that sounded like small bells to the earthy clash of bamboo poles and swish of a sinalimba, an enormous swinging platform."
SF Chronicle - Allan Ulrich 32nd Ethnic Dance Festival June 2010 "Among the discoveries was the Parangal Dance Company's fervent facsimile of a religious ritual from the Philippine islands of Palawan and Mindanao. Erik Espartinez Solano's choreography begins with an introspective women's candle ceremony, which yields to a more boisterous section for men with banners. Sheaves of grain reinforce the piece's function as a fertility rite."
DigitalJournal.com - Jonathan Farrel Asia On Stage September 2010 "The finale-spectacular, was a rousing expression of folk and age-old tribal dances performed by the Parangal Dance Company."
