Teresa VanDenend Sorge

Teresa VanDenend Sorge, EdM, MFA is a dancer, dance educator and Founding Director of Koresh Kids Dance. An outreach initiative of Koresh Dance Company, Koresh Kids Dance serves nearly 500 Philadelphia public school children each week. For nearly a decade she was a full-time lecturer at Muhlenberg College in the department of Theatre and Dance specializing in dance education and developing a dance education laboratory.  She remains a part time lecturer at Sidney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia using creative dance and choreographic practices to encourage empathy and kinesthetic awareness for medical students.

Teresa recently moved to Cincinnati where she teaches dance at Xavier, NKU, and Miami Valley Ballet Theatre. Teresa has created a dance collective with collaborator Rowan Salem in collaboration with Greater Cincinnati Dance Alliance and they were recently awarded an ArtsWave grant for their upcoming project, Synergy Dance Series. Teresa’s choreography and scholarship have been shared at multiple venues and in many community settings, including the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincy Fringe Festival, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the Mayo Clinic, Northern Kentucky University, National Guild for Community Arts Education, Arts and Literacy Conference at UPenn, and National Dance Education Organization. Teresa attended Anne Green Gilbert’s SDIT, as well as the Institute for Restorative Arts with Buildabridge International, where she served as teaching faculty and Artist on Call.

Teresa holds a Master of Education in Dance degree from Temple University and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.