Hi Tina, I was so blessed to witness and share in the joy of seeing your dance company perform. I have some photos that I wanted to share with you. I captured some nice shots of your company.I plan to do a dance series of paintings over the months ahead and some of the paintings will be based on SKIN. Thank you for your spirit, thank you for you & your dancers heartbeats! Thankyou for the movement that awakens us to our internal rhythm. Thankyou for calling the bottom of our soles back down to earth, where we sometimes forget that is the deep roots from which we grow ...no matter our heritage for roots intertwine and we are enriched by each others flow. - Marcy Morris
You take the physical techniques of ballet and lay the expressive modern dance idioms on that muscular base. Mix in the influence of African-American culture and experience. Add some profound musical choices. THAT is SKIN-TTDC. I get it and am not going to miss that show. - MATTHEW LEPOLD
She has carved her own technique, 'Spirit Technique' paying homage to the ancestry of Dance, Uniqueness of its kind!- Edward Villella
"I love making dances on people, not on dancers."- Alvin Ailey
Performing Ms. Tina Thompson's choreography requires for you to be a deliverer and a projector. She always says, "I'd rather you give me too much than too little." SKIN has a spiritual energy that allows us to feed off of one another. We also get energy from pure enjoyment of the song that we're dancing to. It increases our vibe. The feedback that we get from the audience during our performance definitely amplifies our energy level. The Energy is simply infectious.- Marcus Edwards (SKIN COUR ENSEMBLE)
'SKIN DANCE COMPANY'S PERFORMANCE WAS JUST ELECTRIC!- FIRE ISLAND BLACKOUT
Loving the SKIN your in, Come and support SKIN Dance Company for another great year of dance and creativity by the beautiful artistic director Tina Thompson who creates passion thru dance and spirituality in movement.- Anthony DeshaunBel
Evolution Projectis a reflection in human psyches through division of shared emotions; Joy, fear, insecurity, anxiety, vulnerability and strengths. Standing on the shoulders of those before us give hope and design greater destiny's for those to come. At times in life, we are all against obstacles but where we allow them to manifest depends on the power in ourselves. (Below; Company in 'Constellation')
"Dance is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that: you're dancing spirit." --Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison
"I believe talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent." ~ Maya Angelou
“In music school … you learned discipline, you learned concentration, you learned that the real joy of life is total engagement.” — Philip Glass
“The time to sing is when your emotional level is too high to just speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel."- Bob Fosse
Review of Tina Thompson's SKIN DANCE ILADELPH Legends festival, Arts Garage- July 28, 2012:
Hi Tina,
I was so blessed to witness and share in the joy of seeing your dance company perform @ THE ARTS GARAGE this past wkd. I have some photos that I wanted to share with you. I captured some nice shots of your company.I plan to do a dance series of paintings over the months ahead and some of the paintings will be based on SKIN. Thank you for your spirit, thank you for you & your dancers heartbeats! Thankyou for the movement that awakens us to our internal rhythm. Thankyou for calling the bottom of our soles back down to earth, where we sometimes forget that is the deep roots from which we grow ...no matter our heritage for roots intertwine and we are enriched by each others flow.Marcy Morris (painter)
