The Kista Tucker Warm-Ups
The Kista Tucker Warm-Ups
The Kista Tucker Warm-Ups by Kista Tucker
The integrated Kista Tucker Warm-Up series provides an efficient training for dance. It utilizes physical movement designed to prevent injury and prepares the dancer for efficiency, expressivity, and integrity in performance.
People involved in dance as a profession, as a field of study, and for the love of movement can benefit from this book because the information can enrich their movement experience.
I write this book for dance educators, analytic trainers, dance/movement therapists, students, and sports activists—people who want something different in their search for a healthy, rich, and effective workout. It’s for people who want something to help let go of pretense, who want something that is challenging, and something that will allow for deep personal understandings of the many elements addressed in this book. Analysis of the series, both macro and microscopically, can be stimulating. Awareness of initiations, connections, inner intent, spatial intent, and grounding are but some essential concepts under scrutiny in this writing. The KT Warm-Ups: 1) encompass the whole being; 2) include conditioning aspects, specificity and expressivity in movement; 3) examine efficiency and how the mind/body connection elicits a very pleasant wholeness, and 4) address the love of movement and how it can become dance.
This script is not a manual defining a list of exercises. It is a gestalt-like approach to understanding movement in preparation to dance, provides a clear physical warm-up, and informs the mind/body connection—and more. The principles used in the Kista Tucker Warm- Ups can be carried over into the classroom or onto the stage.
The integrated Kista Tucker Warm-Up series provides an efficient training for dance. It utilizes physical movement designed to prevent injury and prepares the dancer for efficiency, expressivity, and integrity in performance.
People involved in dance as a profession, as a field of study, and for the love of movement can benefit from this book because the information can enrich their movement experience.
I write this book for dance educators, analytic trainers, dance/movement therapists, students, and sports activists—people who want something different in their search for a healthy, rich, and effective workout. It’s for people who want something to help let go of pretense, who want something that is challenging, and something that will allow for deep personal understandings of the many elements addressed in this book. Analysis of the series, both macro and microscopically, can be stimulating. Awareness of initiations, connections, inner intent, spatial intent, and grounding are but some essential concepts under scrutiny in this writing. The KT Warm-Ups: 1) encompass the whole being; 2) include conditioning aspects, specificity and expressivity in movement; 3) examine efficiency and how the mind/body connection elicits a very pleasant wholeness, and 4) address the love of movement and how it can become dance.
This script is not a manual defining a list of exercises. It is a gestalt-like approach to understanding movement in preparation to dance, provides a clear physical warm-up, and informs the mind/body connection—and more. The principles used in the Kista Tucker Warm- Ups can be carried over into the classroom or onto the stage.