Tika Morgan is a full-time instructor of Contemporary & Latin Dance with 20 years of professional experience. Her unique teaching style has garnered a devoted following throughout the
San Francisco Bay Area dance community, where she continues to be an inspiring presence.
Tika began dancing at age 4 and performing professionally at age 11. She has worked in several dance companies performing both nationally and internationally. Tika is a graduate teacher of the acclaimed Silvestre Dance Technique (Brazil) and has been working with its founders since 2008.
Tika has made dance ethnology trips to Brazil and Cuba since 1999 which she continues to date. These enable her to identify where various dances of the West African Diaspora come together and diverge.

Tika Morgan Dance workshops are centered around dance as a way of life. Working with Cuban and Brazilian dance from the sacred to the celebratory, from contemporary to folkloric, Tika is highly skilled at bringing in the larger context of these dance lineages while pointing back to their West African roots. . This work is about embodying and celebrating the power available within us.

Working with traditional and popular movement, her classes offer an opportunity to delve into discovering our body’s potential as we move. Participants are guided to explore, at any level, 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”.

Brazil: Since 1999 Tika has made pilgrimages to Salvador, Bahia Brazil to study both music and dance. At the Escola de Dança da Fundação Cultural she has trained with members of the Balé Folclórico da Bahia and with renowned teachers: Rosangela Silvestre & Vera Passos. In 2008 Tika began collaborating with Miss Silvestre to create workshops, classes and performances, throughout Northern California to help promote the Silvestre Trainings held annually in Bahia Brazil.  Tika is a graduated teacher of the technique and has been teaching weekly classes in The Bay Area since 2010.  See video of the training.

CUBA: Tika began a committed study of Cuban dance beginning in 2001 both in the U.S. and Cuba of  Yoruba Technique, Folkloric, Cuban Modern, and Popular dances through the African Cuban linage. Her teachers have come from two renowned groups in Havana, Cuba: Campania Ban Ra Ra &  Raisas Profundas. 
 Dr. Isaias Rojas Ramirez,   Jose Francisco Baroso, Luis Valverde,  Jennyselt Galata,  Silfredo La O and most importantly Susana Arenas Pedroso, who's work continues to have the greatest influence on her interpretation of Cuban dance for well over a decade. Tika has worked with Plaza Cuba 
In 2017 began working with Ori Osoria and together they create dance immersions that are more intimate throughout the year.
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