Tika Morgan is a choreographer, innovator, and retreat facilitator of contemporary, folkloric, and Latin dance.
Her unique teaching style has garnered her a devoted following throughout her travels. Tika is currently based in Mexico City, but for the last 23 years, she has divided her time between Northern California, Bahia, Brazil, and Havana, Cuba, where she has had extensive training, taught workshops, and led cultural retreats.

Tika grew up in Southwestern India with her artist mother,
Deva Padma. She began dancing at age four and performing professionally as the only child in a touring Shakespeare company at age eleven, which performed throughout India for 2 years in theaters all over the country.
At age 14, she returned to the US to be with her father, at which time she was able to study at the Dupree Dance Academy

Returning to India she at age 22 Tika received mentorship to become a movement and meditation facilitator by dance therapist Amiyo Devienne. This is what seeded the ultimate deeper fulfillment of involving others in her work, rather than being watched as a performer.

Tika incorporates the basic fundamentals of
The Silvestre Dance Technique in her workshops and retreats and worked closely with founder Rosangela Silvestre consecutively between 2008 and 2018.

Tika has choreographed for concerts, musical theater, music videos and carnival parades-and adult performance workshops.
Her work has been featured in Quién Magazine Mexico, Marie Claire Latin América, Sf Chronicle and most recently her workshops was chosen by 
The Guardian’s as one top 20 choices  

Tika Morgan Dance workshops and retreats are centered around dance as a way of life. Embodying and celebrating the power available within us though focusing on dance as meditation. By working with fundamental technique, traditional, and popular movement, her retreats and workshops offer an opportunity for dance lovers at any level, to delve into discovering our body’s potential as we move. Participants are guided to explore the interplay between form and freedom and the power of moving as one. Both reverent and joyous, dancers will experience historical and symbolic references for even the most basic steps so that we experience what she calls
“dancing our human story”.

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