A Michigan native, Teresa “Tree” Muller received her B.F.A. in Dance from Marygrove College in Detroit, leading her to perform with multiple professional companies such as Dayton

Contemporary Dance 2nd Company, Ad Deum Dance Company, Psophonia Dance, and

ConteXture Dance Detroit. In 2017, Teresa completed her M.F.A. in Dance at New York

University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her time at NYU allowed her to train with a multitude of artists including Ori Flomin, Loni Landon, Bobbi Jean Smith, and Diane Madden of the Trisha Brown Dance Company - as well as present work at the 14th Street YMCA.

Since moving back to Michigan, Teresa has performed with Kristi Faulkner Dance, DDC dances, and Take Root Dance. She is also a founding member of two 501(c)(3) non profit organizations: Collective Sweat Detroit (artists holding space for dance in the city of Detroit) and Detroit Dance Exchange (a choreographic dance showcase). In the winter of 2021, Teresa became a certified instructor of Dance for Parkinson’s Disease through the Mark Morris Dance Group in Brooklyn, New York. For the past eight years, she was a Special Lecturer in the Department of Dance at Oakland University, teaching styles such as Modern, Ballet, and Improvisation, and choreographing for annual concerts.

Currently, Teresa is the Director of Dance at Cranbrook Schools teaching at both the Upper and Middle schools. She is also enrolled in the Ailey Horton Teaching Certification Program which certifies instructors in the Ailey Horton Technique and is accredited under the prestigious Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.