2016, (from the ongoing series reflected/repeated),
a choreographed work for the Toronto Dance Theatre,
part the the program Singular Bodies,
Performed by Justin de Luna
Music written and performed by Jim Verburg
Toronto ON

...The results were surprising and often beautiful. Sometimes the pieces felt like paintings come to life....Other pieces were more explorative and task-based. I’m thinking in particular of Jim Verburg’s Shape and Light #1, in which dancer Justin de Luna manipulated a white rectangle through a shaft of light, creating Rothko-like divisions on his improvised canvas and, later, prisms that revealed wedges of the colour spectrum. Dance, in any conventional sense of the term, came only from de Luna’s determination to direct light and shape, whether this meant lifting his legs to make shadows or twisting onto his side to reconfigure an effect. - Martha Schabas, Dance Review, Singular Bodies beautifully exploits the overlap between dance and visual effect . The Globe and Mail, Friday, Apr. 15, 2016
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...and Jim Verburg's elegant Shape And Light #1, with Justin de Luna, explores in a simple way what happens when you interrupt light. Here, the choreographic teams achieve quiet studies that seem genuinely cooperative.  - Kathleen Smith, Singular Bodies, Uneven Show - Pairing visual artists and dancers delivers mixed results in Toronto Dance Theatre's Singular Bodies, NOW Toronto, APRIL 20, 2016