Thérèse Keegan has taught and performed extensively as a dancer and worked for decades with families and policy makers in the field of human development. She holds a bachelors degree in dance from the University of Memphis and a master’s degree in child care administration from Nova University. Thérèse has trained in aerial work at the International Aerial Dance Festival in Colorado, and studied intensively with Gemini Trapeze, based in Vermont. She has appeared as an aerial dancer in Caravan Stage’s New Orleans production of “Vanishing Currents” and was a founding member of Air Dance Bernasconi, based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Thérèse also directs the aerial dance company Updraft: a conspiracy of movement, in rural Maryland outside of Washington, D.C., where she teaches modern and aerial dance. She directs Global Homestead, Inc., a nonprofit organization whose mission is to strengthen communities and their members through the arts, the natural environment, and innovative education.