Lori TeagueAssociate Professor

MFA, dance with a certificate in Laban movement studies, The Ohio State University

Lori C. Teague is an artist/activist who joined the dance faculty at Emory University in 1994. She teaches modern, improvisation, choreography, dance literacy, dance pedagogy, contact improvisation, and an interdisciplinary course combining movement and math concepts.

As an improviser, choreographer, educator, and performer, Teague develops material and improvisational scores that invite play, kinesthetic listening, and choice. These processes seek to empower individuals, expand awareness, and build new connections. Her continuous creation of contemporary movement is woven with Contact Improvisation, improvisational performance, and the rich foundation of developmental movement patterns.

Teague earned an MFA from The Ohio State University and a certification in Laban Movement Studies. Her early performance career included works by Mark Morris, Pat Graney, Sharon Wyrrick, Charles Weidman, Sophie Maslow, Doris Humphrey, Susan Hadley, and Victoria Uris. She was a company member with Zivili: Songs and Dances of the Western Balkans in Ohio and Randy James Dance Works in New York. In Atlanta, she performed with GardenHouse Dance, Full Radius Dance, Beacon Dance, and CORE Performance Company.

Since 2005, Teague has co-directed The Dancing Flowers for Peace--creating and collaborating with women over the age of 40. She invests in teacher training and volunteers for Moving in the Spirit, a youth development program. She is a member of Alternate Roots--art and activism, NDEO, and Dance Studies Association.

Teague’s choreographic research continues to ask, How do we live in our body? Her dances frame the ambiguity and embodiment of self during transitions while examining the ongoing relationship gendered bodies have with societal norms, and the distinctive manner in which we survive loss. She has also created a body of site-specific work and dances for film that examine the paradox of control we have in our relationship to water while addressing environmental issues. Her work has been presented throughout the Southeast and internationally.

D.I.R.T. (dance in real time) is an on-going practice of site-specific improvisational performance that seeks to strengthen connections to the natural world and explore uninhabited spaces. Teague creates collaboratively with moving artists, and the space, to make these works.