Tamieca McCloud has been selected by Dance Magazine as one of the "25 to Watch in 2003"

"By the second program, I hungered for something with feeling. That turned out to be Tamieca McCloud's geena... McCloud, a sinewy black sprite, portrayed a heroin addict fresh out of rehab trying to cope with her lover's defection. She'd make tentative forays into the space but soon retreat to the wall. She struggled with gravity. Her physical coherence and her strength to connect with the outside world appeared and disappeared. Uncertain and abandoned movement alternated with a delicate lyricism representing McCloud's character at her very best." - Eva Yaa Asantewaa, The Village Voice

"...[Tamieca] is still a breathtakingly dynamic performer, but her choreography is more than just a star vehicle - it has direction and shape, and looks as good on other dancers as it does on McCloud herself. I can't tell you how gratifying it is to see a gifted young artist going her own way and getting somewhere." - Terry Teachout, The Washington Post

"Sometimes it's the simplest thing that leaves an impression. In the case of Tamieca McCloud, it may seem strange to mention a simple thing, because the range of McCloud's technical ability is so complex. She can hang in the air longer than Michael Jordan, exhibit the strength and control garnered in part from years of Pilobolus partnering, and choose to either lock her leg in a perfectly placed arabesque or let her spine be free in the undulating movements of African dance." - Darrah Carr, The Dance Insider

"Ms. McCloud's prowess as a dancer is well-established...her forceful and heartrending expression of complex ideas will move you. But her ideas will also engage you. Ms. McCloud is mining deep intellectual terrain, and she's not doing it lightly. In an age when choreographers sometimes just wade in exotic waters, satisfied to exploit musical, ethnic, or social influences without really understanding them, Ms. McCloud treats her sources -- and thus her audience -- with respect. As important...she isn't just doing things right, she's doing them well. Tamieca McCloud is operating at a very, very high artistic level, synthesizing social consciousness, artistic breadth, and performance charisma to provide a theater experience you'll never forget." - Paul Ben-Itzak, The Dance Insider

"A stark and strong dance, ['Put Your Heels Down'] began in silence and candlelight and built in speed, sound and energy. At the end, McCloud's humble bow carried the sense that she had given something to the audience and seemed honored by our presence. It was a moment not easily forgotten." - Amy Shuck Morais, Philadelphia CityPaper.net

"...she attacked the floor with toes, heels and sometimes fingers as if each spot touched had significance. With moves lithe, light and quick, she sustained a contemplative intensity that had echoes of whirling dervishes." - Miriam Seidel, THE INQUIRER

"[Tamieca's work] gave me hope again that there is some new young brilliance out there--someone who doesn't just have something to say, but has the art and the standards to say it in an artistically engaging way." - Paul Ben-Itzak, The Dance Insider

"...The most wonderful, sincere moment came for me when McCloud very intentionally closed her eyes and the gestures which she produced then rolled and tucked, pulsed and gyrated, inviting us to share in the emotional state of the performer. McCloud's movement is certainly characterized by strength of line and physical impulse..." - Peggy H. Cheng, The Dance Insider

"[McCloud is] fluid, buoyant, strong as an Amazon, with a sweetness and gaiety that make her feats look like unmediated exuberance…" - Tobi Tobias, New York Magazine

"Tamieca McCloud -- well, well, well. One advertiser in attendance put it best: She said Tamieca, performing her "Unsaid" to the music of Hector Zazou, made both her and her companion cry. Tamieca is that rarer than you might think combination: an artist whose dancing prowess is matched by her choreographic oomph. In her ability to create choreography that matches the amplitude (and well-articulated angst) of her dancing, I don't think Tamieca has a match. What gets to my heart and angst particularly is when, sort of sitting, hands behind her, she arches back and head, hair weeping behind her, and seems to beseech the Heavens. " -Paul Ben-Itzak, The Dance Insider