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The PTSD Project is a Benefit Concert created to raise funds in the fight for those afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Three performance entities will bring their talents together for an evening of entertainment and awareness of the PTSD epidemic distressing our citizens, our community, and our nation.
Jazz Pianist, James J. Kaufmann; African Musician/Drummer, Khalid Saleem; and the Movement Arts Company, Kista Tucker Dance, Inc. (a non-profit 501[c][3] organization) will come together Thursday evening, November 4th at 7:30pm at the Hochstein Performance Hall. The sale and raffle of artwork, workshops, dinners at restaurants, and more will also assist in raising funds for this cause.
The Veterans Outreach Center of Rochester and the Mental Health Association are beneficiaries of funds generated for this cause. Ellen Warren of the VOC and Patricia Woods of the MHA are spokespeople for their respective organizations.
Why PTSD? Kista Tucker received a $26,500 grant and an additional $10,000 in 2003/04 from Sam Houston State University and from donors in Texas. The grant was to create and produce The Korean War Veterans Memorial Project. Performances included concerts in Texas and in California. Through the process of working on the KWVMP, Tucker learned more and more about PTSD and its crippling effects. While sufficient funds to recreate the KWVMP
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are not available at this time, it is still important to inform people about PTSD. – Thus, this
Benefit Concert. At least two works in the concert will directly address the effects of trauma, from war, abuse, accidents, and other forms of trauma induced encounters.
Time and Place
The PTSD Project
Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 – 7:30pm
Hochstein Performance Hall
50 N. Plymouth Ave.
Rochester, NY 14614
Ticket Information
Contributing Patron -- $50
Includes Reserved Seating, Reception, and Invitation
to a Special Randolph County Rehearsal (Spring 2011)
General Admission -- $15
Military Veterans / Seniors / Students -- $10
Advanced Sale Tickets can be purchased at Parkleigh, 215 Park Ave., Rochester, NY 14607; online at http://kistatucker.com/ptsd-project.php; from KTd, Inc. Company Members, and At The Door.
The Primary Players
Khalid Abdul N'Faly Saleem, African music specialist and musical director of Sankofa, has served on the faculties of Duke University and the American Dance Festival, where he also performs, and is a Dance Musician for both African and modern dance classes. Saleem has had the honor to compose, arrange, direct, or perform music for Presidents, Bishops, Ambassadors, and great choreographers such as Donald McKale, Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Tally Beaty, Malissa Finnley, Betty Jones, Lavina Williams, Cleo Parker Robinson, members of the Limon Company and The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Company, Papa Ladji Camara, Baba Djimo Kouyate, and
Chief Bey to name a few. He has traveled internationally to the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Africa, and
South America as a principle music instrumentalist with the well-known Chuck Davis Dance
Company, The Egwen Dancers, The Big Drum Dance Company of Granada, and Les Guidivoir.
Kista Tucker, MFA, MA, BS, CMA, RSMT, is the Director of Kista Tucker Dance, Inc., and the primary Designer of Anakeko Productions. She has performed and presented her work throughout the US and in Europe, Japan, Mexico, and Canada. She has a wide range of performance experiences ranging from a major role in Kurt Joost’s The Green Table to Tucker’s own Randolph County. She received over $36,500.00 toward creating and touring a choreographic project based on the Korean War Veterans Memorial located in Washington, DC. Tucker has been associated with the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS) Board of Directors and Management Committee and was elected to two terms on the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) Board of Directors. She has taught at George Washington University in Washington, DC, The Ohio State University, Sam Houston State University, The University of South Florida, and SUNY Brockport. Additionally, Tucker has presented her work for LIMS, CORD, IADMS, ISMETA, ACDFA, NDEO, and other organizations. She sets works, conducts workshops, and acts in the capacity of Guest Artist within universities and other institutions. She has established the KT Summer Intensives and continues working on publishing her KT Warm-Ups. http://KistaTucker.com
James Kaufmann grew up in Ames, Iowa in a family that loved to make music together. While still a youngster, he worked with Dr. Marion Barnum at Iowa State University, discovering the rich world of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Prokofieff, Bartok and Gershwin. Kaufmann auditioned and won a scholarship to study with Howard Aibel at the University of Northern Iowa and participated in a one-year exchange program at Kansai Gaidai in Japan.
After the exchange program, he alternated between Iowa and Japan working as a pianist in Japan and studying piano with Japanese composer, Yuki Morimoto. He graduated from UNI with a BA in piano. He auditioned for classical and jazz masters programs at the Manhattan School and the Eastman School. He was accepted into the classical program at Manhattan and the jazz program at Eastman, and chose the latter.
After graduation from the Eastman School, he began accompanying dance at SUNY Brockport. He also began working at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Rochester where he absorbed a rich musical tradition of an African American spiritual community, and with the salsa/merengue group "Fama sin Gafas," where he deepened his internalization of popular Cuban and Dominican grooves. Kaufmann creates and performs at Brockport for student and faculty choreography. He plays for the internationally renowned, Jose Limon Dance Company workshops as well as for other companies.
For further information email: admin@kistatucker.com, call: 585-330-7751, or visit http://kistatucker.com/ptsd-project.php.
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