"[As a director,] Meg holds a charge that opens my energy centers -- she embraces expression in a way that helps me feel safe, loved and brave enough to lean into an unfamiliar beauty." - Jote L., performer and co-writer, Red Delicious
“[As the director] you brought things out of me that I didn’t know were there.” — Phoebe S., actor, musician, co-writer, House of Humans
"When I think of your work, I think: otherworldly vulnerability" - Michael D., DJ
"I don’t know anyone quite doing what you’re doing" - Tiffani Jones Brown, former Pinterest Director
"There isn’t a cultural construct she doesn’t challenge" - Lorna V., Spiritual Business Mentor
“[Anitya] unfolded in a thematic unity whose overall impact was an odd combination of worship and mirth. You come away having re-connected with the primitive holiness of the child. - Michael A., Priest.
“You have an honest relationship with gravity.” — Paul C., Dancer.
"[Imaginary Solutions] was like a moving painting; a cross between David Lynch and The Sound of Music" - Kaspar K., Screenwriter.
"[Like Om Like Weight] was like going to church and having a really good time - Mervyn A., Poet & Screenwriter
“[Red Delicious] changed my life — it’s really hard to explain — the physical journey through an epic landscape, the rhythm and raw-emotion — all of it breaking open into some kind of unexplainable transformation and in the end I felt like each person present was at the very center of the experience” - E.H.
"All I could think was, 'more people need to see [Beta Rhythms]'" - T. Johnson, Football Coach.
“Unapologetically poetic…. the cast of [B for Butterfly] Powder presents a physically-connected force, never more so than in the crystalline harmonies of a closing song performed a capella.” Zac Whittenburg, Time Out Chicago
“Beautiful -- and moving. ‘B for Butterfly Powder’ captures and translates into movement and music something at the heart of this lyrical book -- the stark being that we glimpse, but rarely, behind seemingly solid shapes and appearances.” Christine Froula, Ph.D and Author of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civility, Modernity (Columbia UP, 2005).
“The music reaches emotions you cannot even describe” - Hazel D’Ora
“Watching Meg perform this [particular] dance [in Back To The] was incredibly validating and cathartic. Years of grief from cult conditioning and psychological manipulation poured out of me in huge sobs. I felt re-connected to a lost, vulnerable, and completely innocent part of myself that day. This dance illustrated the exact war I had experienced in my heart for decades. I was moved beyond words.” - Nancy Rae Smith
So I'm not sure what happened during that song [“Dark is the Night” in Back To The], but basically it was like a total release of emotions for me on a level that I have never experienced through a coaching conversation. The art was speaking to my body and my body wanted to be a part of it. - Malorie
"Now I know why you're a freak, you’re freakishly talented" - N.O., Oakland
“Meg, wherever you are dancing, I want to be there” - S.M., DJ and poet, SF
“Anitya is one of the most influential musical forces in my life. Everytime I listen to it, it changes me.” - CG, Boston, MA
“This is why the Greeks invented theater” - Aria Norman, Poet, Healer, Chicago
“I must have listened to Anitya 50 times already.” - B.C., San Francisco
[Anitya] finishes and my kids ask for it again - CTR, Chicago
“[When I saw ‘Like Om Like Weight’], I thought, ‘how does she know me so well!?’”
— MJ, Dancer, Chicago
“My favorite is still ‘Imaginary Solutions’ where we were lead into the forest into some crazy dream-maze.” — LJ, Writer, Chicago
“Her silliness is deep” -- Ryan Moore, Poet, Chicago, CA
“What a voice Meg Anderson has. And I don’t just mean her vocal chords, I mean her artistic vision.” — PK, Producer, Chicago
“When I listen to your music I do not doubt myself ; I remember to do what I like. — Giana Mirelli, Chicago
“Ravishing melody, exquisite harmony and a solid groove: this is a disc to come back to again and again” — Aaron Johnson, Chicago
“Don’t Quit... and I don’t mean your job” — Molly Whedbe, Chicago