CO-FOUNDERS
TRACY HALLORAN
Tracy Halloran earned her BFA in dance at Marygrove College and her MFA in Choreography at the University of Michigan. In 2014, she was named the Kresge Fellow in Music and Dance. She has worked as a performer, teacher, choreographer, and rehearsal director in the dance world. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at Madonna University. She is also the co-founder of Detroit Dance Exchange, a program established to help local choreographers exhibit and explore their own professional works. Halloran is the founder and artistic director of ConteXture Dance Detroit. Halloran’s choreography blurs the lines between dance genres and styles by combining the movement techniques of modern, hip hop, jazz and contemporary. She uses the dynamics of motion and choreographic levels to create explosive and exciting movement phrases, which juxtapose the delicacy of human emotion. In 2018, Halloran was a finalist in the Michigan Dance Council’s prestigious Maggie Allesee Choreography competition.
TERESA MULLER
With a BFA in dance from Marygrove College and a MFA in Dance from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Teresa Muller is a freelance dance artist working all across Metro Detroit. Since returning to the area in 2017, Teresa has been performing and touring with Detroit based dance company Kristi Faulkner Dance, as well as Take Root Dance. She is also a founding member of Collective Sweat Detroit—rooted in Detroit and collectively organized, our work honors, shares, experiments with, nurtures, highlights, and holds space for dance in all of its life giving forms. In addition to being a founding member of Detroit Dance Exchange, Teresa is currently an Adjunct Lecturer of Dance at Oakland University. Her pedagogy is centered around proprioception and injury prevention (with a focus on floor work) to instill the idea that movement should be pleasurable on the body.
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