inhale…
…and exhale.
breath is life. breath is movement.
I am an artist, director, choreographer, expert wiggler, certified breath work & meditation coach. Ultimately across all forms of creation, I aim to create opportunities for accidental introspection, surprise, and joy through mystical, curious reflections of our world.
Bio
Teresa “Toogie” Barcelo is an internationally acclaimed choreographer and movement artist. As a first generation Cuban-Spaniard American, performance and art has been a part of her life since she was an embryo. Her creativity manifests in a wide range of disciplines including film, live performance, site-specific experiences, movement direction, teaching, coaching, projection design and more.
Trained classically and culturally in a plethora of movement techniques and philosophies from ballet to popping to improvisation, she is a pioneer of the hybridization of classical and street techniques. Toogie is known among her peers as a chameleon, able to adapt to and expand any creative context.
Toogie is on Billboard’s top 12 most iconic Choreographers of the Decade for her work on Dua Lipa’s “New Rules,” and she received an MTV VMA nomination for Dua’s “Electricity”
What People Are Saying
[Toogie] works with some of the brightest and best [artists] of our time.
[Toogie shares that she finds success working with artists] not by … mak[ing] them someone they are not,…rather… [by] amplify[ing] their already amazing artistry and help[ing] them level up as human beings.
“Toogie’s movement is employed with an expert understanding of humanness, cued by her holistic practices and the way she sees an entire individual.”
“Drawing from classical, contemporary and urban techniques…Toogie is undeniably able to effortlessly adapt herself to any creative context. In doing so, her compositions feature powerful and spiritual movements that are pioneering in nature.
“Barcelo’s process is gentle and extremely collaborative…creat[ing] an environment where pop stars and celebrities are able to come into their own…[and] unlock their natural potential.”
[Toogie has secured a praiseworthy position on] the Billboard’s list for Top 12 Most Iconic Choreographers of the Decade. [Here Barcelo shares her process for the renowned] “New Rules” Music Video, by Dua Lipa.”
[Barcelo states that] art is a space for healing… for processing grief… for transformation. [They find inspiration for their work from the] appreciation of life.
