Emory Dance Company Choreographer Lori Teague

Photo of the optimistic body by Lori Teague 

By Raven Crosby, Emory Dance Program Office Assistant

We are excited to have Emory Dance Director Lori Teague choreograph a new work for the Emory Dance Company this semester. Read on for more about Teague’s background and her new piece for the company, the optimistic body!

Lori Teague is the director of the Emory Dance Program. Her study of contemporary movement blends together contact improvisation, improvisational performance, and the understanding of movement via somatic practices. Teague earned an MFA from The Ohio State University and a certification in Laban Movement Studies. Her choreographic research focus emerges from the social and psychological features of human behavior. Teague’s work has been presented throughout the southeast as well as Scotland and Russia, including twenty commissions. Teague currently co-directs the Dancing Flowers for Peace, trains teachers for outreach settings, and serves as the program chair for Moving in the Spirit, a youth development program.

Photo of the optimistic body by Lori Teague

In her newest work for the Emory Dance Company, the optimistic body, Teague investigates “the relationship of optimism with realism.” The large group of thirteen dancers are guided by improvisation scores, which help Teague develop movement that is full of volume, resiliency, and recovery. Teague plays and improvises with risk, loss, continuity, power, and vulnerability throughout the optimistic body.

Emory Dance Company performs November 21-23, 2019 in the dance studio of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased below using the link below.

Buy Tickets Here!: https://tickets.arts.emory.edu/single/PSDetail.aspx?psn=123308

Photo of the optimistic body by Lori Teague