PERSPIRATION
BFA from Boston Conservatory at Berklee • Attended The Hubbard Street Professional Program • Founded pro.noun dance festival and the interactive workshop and performance project, BalletNaked.

INSPIRATION
The ocean, TikTok, multiplicities, garlic, intersectional feminism, puns, Marina Abramović, radical honesty, dark and loud nightclubs.

BIOGRAPHY
Tea Reed (she) is a St. Petersburg, Florida native and started training and competing in Scottish Highland dance at age 12. Tea then trained in ballet at the Patricia Ann Dance Studio, attended the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and The Hubbard Street Professional Program in Chicago. Tea has been a freelance dance artist with Fukudance, Adam Weinert & Company, the A.R.T. at Harvard University, Dance in the Parks Chicago, and Aerial Dance Chicago. In 2021, Tea founded the inaugural pro.noun dance festival to help queer dance artists gather and create. Tea has also been a guest artist at Ballet22 and Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and a guest teacher at Mass Motion Dance, New England Youth Dance Exchange, HAVEN Sanctuary for Dance, and Chicago Movement Collective. For more about Tea, visit teaganreed.com. This is Tea’s third season moving and grooving with GroundWorks DanceTheater.