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As storyteller, consultant, motivational speaker, and dancer Lonnetta M. Taylor-Gaines evokes enthusiastic responses from her audiences. Below is a sampling
of reviews and comments Gaines has received over the years. |
 “Lonnetta M. Gaines yesterday told about 70 teenagers from inner-city public housing estates to sit up straight and focus their attention. They did. For more than
two hours. Because the New York educator motivated them to do so by making games of it instead of ordering them. Called ‘Imagine Success,’ it was the first in a series of Saturday youth motivational
programs at the Louis Stokes Center.
Harry Stainer, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio |
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In an evening of dance choreographed by Eleo Pomare, "...Lonnetta Gaines and Strody Meekins provided a high point in the evening with their mocking, sassy 'Juba.'"
Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times |
“She isn’t a minister, but she does preach the gospel of love, fairness and self-esteem. And people of all
ages listen.”
Judy Jenkins,
The Gleaner, Henderson, Kentucky |
“I want to thank you again, on behalf of all the au
pairs, for a truly inspirational evening. The way you were able to move from the black experience to the human experience, from the universal to the personal and back again, enriched all of us. Through your
gift of storytelling and dancing you made the wisdom of your black heritage accessible to all of us regardless of English language ability.”
Community Coordinator, AuPair Homestay
USA |
”Hex exhibited the intense concentration and sinuous strength of Lonnetta Gaines, a striking dancer with a powerful almost masculine body.”
Simpson, Dance Magazine |
“Gaines in her self-fulfilling way is a joy to watch. Here is a woman who knows that what she does is important and fully enjoys doing it.”
Bill Moore, The Black American |
“The dancers are stunning: Lonnetta Gaines, the defiant daughter, darts through space with the deadliness of a viper’s tongue.”
Allen, N.Y. Amsterdam News
“…marvelous! I could see the music!”
Marlene Furtick, Manhattan Cable TV, NYC |
Pomare’s “…she spider (the stupendous Lonnetta Gaines) jerks and preens and glowers balefully at her victim (…who looks appropriately delicate
and wriggly beside Gaines, powerful and intent).”
Jowitt, The Village Voice |
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