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Rosalie Tucker
"The Revue became an outlet for frustrations and anger I held around the perceptions and expectations placed on women's sexuality. I found freedom in creating a space where the dancers could be ridiculous and confrontational with the audience."
- Alumni of: 2006 Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship Program
- Resides: Los Angeles, CA
- Hometown: Eugene, OR
- Age: 31
- Community College: Portland Community College
- Four-year College or University: University of California, Los Angeles
- Academic/Career Pursuits: Arts / Music / Performance, Education / Academia, Literature, Media / Communications / Marketing, Social Science / Anthropology
- Other Interests: Literature, Performing Arts / Theatre, Social Science / Anthropology
Biography
Rosalie Tucker may be young, but she is already experienced at connecting others through dance, passion and hard work. She inhaled multiculturalism, the daughter of a white mother and a black father who moved to the West Coast and started a new life in a Buddhist community. Early on, she knew she wanted to "seek out situations where cultures come together" and she put that into practice when she was 18 by joining Seattle's Diversity Dance Workshop. Four months in Thailand, Laos and Malaysia exploring both traditional and modern music and art helped her realize where she should be with her own dance and performance studies.
Two years later, she joined the rich arts community in Portland, OR, and paired her choreography with live music "ranging from big band to Klezmer, from samba to hip-hop, and from old-time jazz to spoken word." She created the Travesty Revue, a burlesque dance troupe, giving her "a voice that allowed me to comment on cultural perceptions and restrictions without being too serious or pedantic. By becoming clowns, we inhabited characters that made people laugh while asking them to think." At UCLA, she wants to learn more about cultural roots of performance, then eventually "move into a professional career as a choreographer and educator."
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