With a human touch, sweat and their bodies vibrating with energy… the dancers, athletes, acrobats – Grégory Grosjean, Gemma Higgingbotham, Samuel Lefeuvre, Sofiane Ouissi and Nikoleta Rafaelisova – unleash raw animal power, a kind of savagery which they nevertheless master perfectly. (…) Unlike other performances of this kind, “Raining Dogs” never takes the audience hostage. It is more a case of obliging them to see, look, feel and listen. For as well as the five outstanding dancers (…) everything contributes towards putting us in a state of fragile equilibrium outside our usual comfort zone as members of the audience. (…) The lighting is magnificent.
Jean-Marie Wynants – Le Soir – 25 November 2002

Whilst not remotely neglecting the qualities of the dance being presented, the choreography endeavours to turn accepted ideas upside down.
La Voix du Nord – 20 November 2002

Michèle Anne De Mey’s latest creation … takes your breath away, and that’s the least that can be said! (…) “Raining Dogs” upsets what we are used to doing as members of the audience, requiring us to find our own viewing angle and unleashing violence and passions. The amazing movements of the five dancers are supported by a soundtrack comprising 35 different versions of Gloomy Sunday, combined with rain and superbly worked lighting. An atypical spectacle that awakens our fears and anxieties.
MB – La Tribune de Bruxelles, 11 December 2003

Michèle Anne De Mey plunges her five dancers into a fascinating torment. “Raining Dogs” are a trembling, livid pack (..) It is a piece which is divided and scathing, as much in its intention as in its way of challenging our subjectivities. Michèle Anne De Mey and her stage designer Simon Siegmann have actually devised a spectacle which uses the venue’s architecture closely. (…) We rarely get opportunities like this to move about the magical Les Halles in circumstances where the beauty of the architecture is combined with the strange look that we – paying voyeurs – take at these dancers who resemble a group of young people in our streets looking for one another at night.
Guy Duplat – La Libre Belgique – 13 December 2003