03/11/2025
NJArts.net | Courtney Smith
“…poignant and absorbing…”
“…powerful.”
03/19/2025
Patron
“New Jersey Symphony’s rendition of The Firebird was both enchanting and enlightening. Add on Nimbus Dance’s interpretation of the story through modern dance – and the whole experience became otherworldly for me. Rarely am I moved to tears in a classical venue, but with this performance, I lost myself in the moments where movement and music transported me to another realm. It has made me rethink how I want to experience classical music in the future.”
03/19/2024
Culturebot | Darvejon A. Jones
I found myself sweating with excitement as he interacted with Winard’s superb jazz percussion and the expansive dancing of Nimbus Dance.
07/24/2023
The Berkshire Eagle | Clarence Fanto
“Martha Graham’s uplifting spirit survives and, if anything, is enhanced in this 21st-century reimagining.”
04/01/2023
Jersey City Times | Tris McCall
“A Nimbus piece can pivot from ballet to Broadway to Beyoncé in a few beats. Because their dancers have internalized and synthesized these styles, their performances never feel like pastiche. The seams of what they’re stitching together are rarely visible.”
“…an absolute revelation.”
“…such a hoot to watch, and so fully embodied…”
11/02/2022
“the NJPAC audience leapt to their feet in a standing ovation.”
05/09/2021
Critical Dance | Jerry Hochman
“This is a company of significance, with dancers of quality.”
12/11/2020
The Christian Monitor | Juan Michael Porter II
Honest representation was also on Sam Pott’s mind when he created “Jersey City Nutcracker.” The founder and director of Nimbus Dance in Jersey City, New Jersey, says, “It was important for European immigrants to have shows like ‘Nutcracker’ that connected them back to their European traditions. But sometimes that was wedded to white supremacy.” That’s why, instead of showcasing the traditional aristocratic family of the story, this version features children from different economic backgrounds traveling to “the safer and kinder Jersey City of their dreams,” he says.
3/27/2019
NJ.COM | Natalie Pomilio
“Our dancers are extraordinary, elite artists. They’re also in the community working with the youths of Jersey City as teaching artists. We found a need that wasn’t being fulfilled,” Pott said. “All these threads get woven together to fill out who we are and what we do.”
8/7/18
Mount Desert Islander | Liz Graves
“We all were elated that we had this opportunity to work with really high caliber professional dancers,” Grieco said. The Nimbus company members were all also, he added, “really nice people.”
5/2/18
Dance Enthusiast | Christina Jowers
“There is not doubt of Pott’s craft, the embroidery of his phrases.”
1/10/18
Dance Enthusiast | Juan Michael Porter II
“Through Pott’s tireless advocacy and direction, Jersey City is fast becoming a pure-dance destination.”
1/4/17
Dance Enthusiast | Christina Jowers
“Pott’s interpretation of Brahms and Liszt in Surface Tension (2014) conveys a language of yearning romanticism, transfixing us with elegant, rapturous partnering as images dissolve and reappear.
1/7/2017
The Huffington Post | Juan Michael Porter II
“It’s an unadulterated joy that adults long for and instantly recognize because they spend their later years attempting to reclaim it. Bottom line: See this piece before you die.”
6/7/16
Broadway World | Juan Michael Porter II
“The concert that I attended – closing night, June 4th, 2016 – contained the most diverse audience I have ever encountered.”
“It is rare to come upon a concert piece that so elegantly encapsulates what it means to lose a loved one, and yet that is precisely what Mr. Pott has accomplished in choreographing this extraordinary treatise on death.
With more hits than misses, “Geolocate” went above and beyond in presenting a marvelous evening of dance.
7/31/14
NJ Monthly | Lauren Barbagallo
As a choreographer, Pott, a native New Yorker, is known for creating works that invite an emotional—and often personal—connection between dancers and the audience. Building this bridge between world-class concert dance and the Jersey City community was the reason Pott formed Nimbus. “I really believe that the arts bring people together in tangible ways,” he says.
6/3/2011
The New York Times | Tammy La Gorce
That mission, which can be summed up as a commitment to interacting with the community…”