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Ms. Tucker has many admirable qualities. She is an accomplished dancer, diverse in style with a broad range in space and effort dynamics. ...she has an excellent understanding of the body-mind both humanistically and scientifically. Her movement abilities are well-informed and engaging; her creative work is mature and compelling; and her bodywork with others is efficient. She has an understanding of the human element that is a necessary quality for teaching excellence and pedagogic maturity. I greatly enjoyed and benefited from having Ms. Kista Tucker in the Laban Certification Program. She...had a great sense of humor and love for movement and dance. She is the caliber of person and professional expert I would not hesitate to have on my team. |
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Peter Madden,
Director
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I
have known her to be a teacher of great insight and clarity who is much
respected by her students and colleagues. Her choreography is full of
wonderful ideas and movement invention. |
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Garth Fagan
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I
have the highest regard for her talent and her achievement. As a performer
she can flawlessly execute the most technically demanding roles; she can
achieve real dramatic depth, and she has demonstrated an astonishing versatility
in the range of roles that she has performed. As a choreographer she shows
a great sensitivity in conveying both emotional and aesthetic material. She has a consummate command of her craft and again has the strength of
versatility in the range of themes which she explores. Through patience
and expertise she was able to help the students prepare an excellent program
and also to help them achieve a sense of ensemble and a pride in themselves
and in their accomplishments. ...Ms. Tucker is an accomplished professional
and capable of excellence in whatever assignment she is given in our field. |
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James A.
Payton
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She has developed a very specific
philosophy of pedagogy and dancing that have given her the strength and
motivation to accomplish an impressive array of accomplishments. She is
deeply concerned with the emotional and physical health of her students.
Among her greatest gifts is her ability as a performer... I created a work
especially for her..., a dance calling for exceptional maturity of dynamic
coloration, phrasing and dramatic intent, and she performs this piece really
wonderfully. It is full, also, of technical virtuosity, which she executes
without ever calling attention to it. |
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Bill
Evans
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Kista is dedicated
and selfless, and has an unusual combination of both traditional dance experience
and that which is most current in the profession. Watching a ... colleague
continue to develop as both an artist and an educator is wonderful; in Kista’s
case, it has been exceptional. Our students are very happy that she is back a Brockport..., intermediate
and advanced students have registered for her beginning level technique
course. ...we are confident in her ability to meet our high expectations... |
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Jacqueline
Davis
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SUNY Brockport
I am very pleased to recommend Kista Tucker as a strong, experienced teacher
of modern dance, a skilled and eloquent choreographer and an efficient,
responsible administrator. Ms. Tucker’s...work at The Ohio State University
was outstanding. I strongly recommend her as a teacher/artist with substance
and vision. |
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Rosalind
Pierson
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...an
enthusiastic teacher with enormous curiosity and a sense of adventure.
She works with both the science and artistry of dance and is most interested
in fusing these aspects... Kista is a wonderful role model. Her work habits
are disciplined and her own dancing is beautiful, technically secure,
intelligent, and stylistically versatile. This gives her teaching an authenticity
that makes her one of the rare breeds of artist/teachers so important
in dance... ...energy, ideas, and artistry. |
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Susannah
Newman
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She is most capable and reliable
as well as foresightful and imaginative. Her skill in modern dance technique
is demonstrated in her choreography, in her own dancing, and in the classroom.
...a strong teacher of modern dance technique and choreography on all levels.
I have appreciated her as a resource person for graduate students at [SUNY]
Brockport. Her works are clear in movement and style-with no loss of drama
and with. |
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Sondra Fraleigh,
Chair
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I...have developed a sincere
admiration for her unique choreographic skill and professionalism in the
teaching arena. Her dancing style, though entirely different from my own,
is one that I recognize as technically thorough, well polished and tremendously
expressive. Having witnessed her performing the dances of diverse choreographers
as well as her own [work], I am aware of her extensive interpretive range.
Though extremely articulate in dramatic roles I consider her greatest strength
in the area of lyrical interpretation. This perhaps due to the astute musical
approach she brings to her expositions. Kista has taken the initiative of
going beyond the limitations... Her kinesiological and physiological understanding
of movement is more than noteworthy. ...my primary endorsement of Kista
Tucker is as a choreographer and performing artist for it is in those two
areas that my own critical evaluation is most valid. She has my full support
both as a friend and colleague. |
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| Clyde
W. Morgan Associate Professor Department of Dance SUNY College at Brockport |
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