Tea (she/her) hails from St. Petersburg, Florida, and began Scottish Highland dance at age 12. She trained at the Patricia Ann Dance Studio and the Pinellas County Center for the Arts before earning her B.F.A. in 2020 from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music and completing Hubbard Street's professional training in the same year.
Tea has performed with various companies, including companies like American Repertory Theatre, Fukudance, Adam Weinert and Company, Dance in the Parks Chicago, Little Fire Artist Collective, Aerial Dance Chicago, Groundworks DanceTheatre and as a guest artist at Walnut Hill School for the Arts.
She has performed works by internationally acclaimed artists such as
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Melissa Ajayi
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Jonathan Alsberry
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Jennifer Archibald
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Adam Barruch
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Korhan Basaran
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Sidra Bell
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Antonio Brown
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Ronald K. Brown
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Rena Butler
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Peter Chu
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Merce Cunningham
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Kurt Douglas
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William Forsythe
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Junichi Fukuda
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Morgan Grube
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Maddie Hanson
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Nicole Hennington
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Gabe Katz
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Maurya Kerr
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Christina and Sabrina Lindhout
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Alice Klock & Florian Lochner
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Bliss Kholemyer
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Jun Kuribayashi
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Jose Limon
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Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
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Levi Marsman
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Ryan Mason
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David Norsworthy
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Ryan Walker Page
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Suzanne Pomerantzef
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PearlAnn Porter
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Doricha Sales
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David Shimotakahara
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Cayeatano Soto
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Ted Shawn
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Spenser Theberge
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Olivier Wevers
She has been commissioned for new choreographic works by HAVEN. Sanctuary for Dance, and Dance in the Parks Chicago.
As a movement teacher she has been on faculty at Patricia Ann Dance Studio, Mass Motion Dance, New England Youth Dance Exchange, Cleveland Dance Project, The Rainey Institute, and Shaker Dance Academy.
In 2016, she launched Ballet Naked as an independent ongoing project and founded the Pro.noun Dance Project in 2021 to increase visibility of queer and trans artists. Teagan is inspired by her experience as a trans woman to create new work that exists within the canon of queer artworks. Her work attempts to encompass the entire scope of human emotion and put new works that are intentional and meaningful into the world.
She lives in Cleveland, Oh with her boyfriend Jason and enjoys good food and good friends.
