"...inventive and athletic choreography by Melissa Riker (including aerial stunts!)"
(About Kate Crackernuts, a Rave Play)
Nicholas Seeley
OffOffOnline, August 2004
"...Moving Words by Melissa Riker could be called 'senti-Mental gymnastics'!"
(About text solos Moving Words)
Edward McNamee
Source Voice, September 2002
"The Circus' most beautiful moments happen in the air. The opening sequence,
after the skewed election, becomes the flying dance of the two virtues
(Teresa Kochis and choreographer Melissa Riker) sliding up and down ropes in unison."
"... "Lust" is simple. Riker flips and twists around long loops of fabric that hang from the Lyceum's high ceiling,
accompanied by DJ fflood's rhythmic pulses. Her spine is serpentine, and her movements so taut and clean
that vice seems to conflate with virtue"
(About the Circus of Vices and Virtue 2003)
Abby Ranger
Brooklyn Free Press, April 2003
"...(one of) the most successful segments (is) "Lust," in which Melissa Riker has
choreographed her own graceful performance on what Wikler calls an "aerial fabric loop"
(About the Circus of Vices and Virtue 2003)
Paulanne Simmons
The Brooklyn Papers, April 2003