Teresa Cooper

Ms. Cooper has taught at the University of North Texas since 1985. She also teaches at A Time To Dance Studio in Corinth, and is chairman of the Cecchetti Southwest Committee (Ballet organization). She has choreographed and performed at international, regional, and local venues on theatrical stages, conference stages, and in churches. She collaborated with Christopher Deane of the UNT music faculty on Three Dance Sketches, presented at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, Fall 2003. In the spring of 2006, she took six UNT students to perform her composition Can You Hear Me Now? at Project Dance on New York City’s Times Square, where she also performed a solo, Be Still. In the summer of 2006, she performed a lecture-demonstration, Beyond Words, at the Two Tasks Conference in Washington, DC, a bi-annual gathering of 400 Christian professors and graduate students from around the world.