Teri fell in love with dancing as a pre-schooler (don't most little girls??), and pursued classical ballet training with Ballet Austin Academy throughout grade school and high school. As the sole professional ballet company in Austin, TX, Ballet Austin was led by founder/artistic directors Eugene Slavin and Alexandra Nadal. Teri's training, choreography, and performance style reflects her years of extensive training with Slavin and Nadal, based on Russian Technique with some of the best from French, English and Danish systems. Teri danced and performed with the Ballet Austin Junior Company and Senior Company for 6 years, including solo and corps de ballet roles in a plethora of productions such as The Nutcracker, Peter and The Wolf, Of Texas and Texans, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

In high school Teri branched out with her training, to include lyrical jazz, modern, and character dance. She trained and performed with Third Coast Jazz, and her State Championship high school dance team, The Red Jackets. As Senior Captain of the organization, Teri choreographed and led her dancers to multiple regional & state competition wins, and garnered several gold-medal solo awards. During her senior year of high school Teri caught the "broadway" bug, for the first time combining her giftings in dance, acting and singing, with a lead role in Little Shop of Horrors.

Teri continued her dance training at the University of Texas in Austin, and performed in various local/regional professional productions including Carousel, The King and I, and Grease. During the summers Teri was a professional dancer, singer and actress with Galveston Island Outdoor Musical Theatre, in such productions as South Pacific, Music Man, Into The Woods, and Chorus Line. In 1992 she landed a lead role in the summer production of The Sound of Music, as the young Liesl.

After a transfer into the musical theatre department of Western Kentucky University, Teri received a BFA in Performing Arts, with minors in Dance and Vocal Performance. She trained and performed with the WKU Dance Company, and enjoyed solo, stage acting, and corps de ballet roles in The Boys Next Door, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, An Evening of Dance, Jungle Book, and more.

In 1992-93, Teri auditioned with Opryland in Nashville, TN, and performed professionally as the singer/dancer for the American Theatre production of And The Winner Is. She and her fellow dancers were hired as "back-up" for several music videos, including Teri's featured role in the 1993 Dolly Parton hit, "More Where That Came From."

With the arrival of her firstborn son in 1995, Teri hung up her dancing shoes...for a while. After a 5 year hiatus, Teri returned to singing and dancing, with the Christ Church worship team and Rejoice worship dancers. In 2001 and 2002, she began choreographing and teaching again, with a classical Fosse-style jazz class in Brentwood, TN.

Now in Woodland Park, Colorado, Teri sings with the Woodland Park Community Church worship team, and enjoys the occasional opportunity to choreograph and help lead the worship dancers. She loves taking dance class with Pikes Peak Conservatory, and will begin teaching there in the summer of 2007.

Teri and her husband of 14 years, Kevin, along with their five children, are currently building an environmentally-responsible, earth-friendly, straw-bale construction home in Rampart Ranches (Woodland Park, CO) which will include a 750 square foot dance studio.

For private dance or vocal lessons, choreography, or coaching for your own artistic development, contact her via email.