Dance critic Marcia B. Siegel writes of Bartenieff, "Irmgard thought in global terms, holistic
terms. She thought mind, body and action are one, that the individual is one with the culture, and function with expression, space with energy, art with work with environment with religion. When you spent a lot of time around her you could get pretty confused and have to go sort things out by yourself, but you could never again see the universe as a collection of isolated particles."