"Among our dancers, Beltran is most courageous as a solo artist, unafraid to speak from the convictions of her heart, to find varying collaborators, and to perform before a small (but motley) crowd in an uproar at an unpretentious venue. There she has found a sustained following."

"Now confined to her open box, she has discovered space in its multifaceted directions, volumes and immediacy. Beltran’s works ranging from solos to quartets, have found scope in choreography and content. Even her redundancies have poetic ends. Often she also recites verses with disarming honesty, as in her story of a "Star Maiden." A feminist but not the virago kind, she explores the beliefs and fears of women with constant daring."

"Discourse is dance, dance is discourse. And if the allure of dance is its ephemerality, the allure of discourse is in its constant reinvention with every performance. Each performance is a discourse, and with Dance Forum we can be sure that it’s an open invitation."

"You are missing a lot (and dance history) if you have never been there." (M. Beltran’s creative corner)

"All I know is at the end of the evening, I brought home a memory: inside the theatre, I was perspiring from the heat generated by lights and the warm bodies, but what I usually find uncomfortable, was strangely part of the pleasure. The movement and music humming in my gut, I forced back my tears. I was experiencing the aesthetic in dance for the first time."