Associate Professor, Dance, Emory University
Certified Movement Analyst, Laban Institute of Movement Studies
Master of Fine Arts, Dance, The Ohio State University
Bachelor of Arts, Dance, Columbia College
Lori Teague is an independent choreographer, Associate Professor of Dance at Emory University, and a performer based in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds an M.F.A. in choreography and performance from The Ohio State University and a certification in Laban Movement Analysis. As a contemporary artist Teague creates and blends together ideas from our environmental, architectural, social, political, and sexual world. She sifts these ideas through her own body as an improvisational mover. Teague’s physical journey usually investigates gravity, momentum, risk and spontaneity. That source generates the seeds of her dances. Since 1982, she has collaborated with dancers, both students and professionals, to create more than fifty works. Her work has been produced at festivals throughout eastern United States including the Miami Light Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and commissioned by numerous modern dance companies. Teague’s training in modern dance blends with a love of contact improvisation and an interest in many body awareness techniques. As a performer, she has toured extensively with the University Dance Company and Zivili: Songs and Dances of the Western Balkans of Ohio, Randy James Dance Works of New York, GardenHouse Dance and CORE Performance Company of Atlanta. Her performance repertoire includes works by Mark Morris, Pat Graney, Sharon Wyrrick, Ellen Bromberg, Charles Wiedman, Sophie Maslow, Doris Humphrey, Susan Hadley, Victoria Uris and other independent choreographers.
Teague has taught has also taught at Georgia State University, Agnes Scott College, and Columbia College, Columbia, SC. She was Dance Program Director for the Governor’s School of North Carolina, Laurinburg, North Carolina in 1992.