The Boston Globe/ Debra Cash
"Villani stands for everything esoteric and cutting edge. Her solos are case examples of some choreographic Heisenberg uncertainty principle. You never know which way is up, and apparently, she likes it that way."

The New York Times/ Jennifer Dunning
"Darla Villani's Pictures Without Proof was just as mystifying but arresting in its strangeness. She moved in the gutsy, direct way of an athlete, but there was nothing direct about the solo, a secret one wanted to know."

Boston Herald / Bill T. Jones
"Darla takes risks in ways that are difficult to explain. She has a very original mind. I felt she was a person in the world of dance for all the right reasons, to answer important questions."