About Me

Biography: 

Tegan Ross McMonagle is a dancer and choreographer from East Greenville, Pennsylvania. She is a 2026 graduate of Muhlenberg College, where she earned a BA in Dance with a concentration in Dance Education and a BA in English & Creative Writing. 

Tegan’s first performance at Muhlenberg College was in the student-choreographed dance concert Move Diverge Advance in 2022. She then joined KPC, Muhlenberg College’s Kpop dance team, where she performed both Kpop dance covers and self-choreographed solos in several showcases, including Mulesic Bank (Spring ‘23, Fall ‘23, Fall ‘24, Spring ‘25, Fall ‘25, and Spring ‘26), Out With A Bang (Spring ‘23), Kutztown Kpop Rewind Showcase (Fall ‘24), and Mule Countdown (Spring ‘25). In the spring of 2025, Tegan choreographed for FUSE, an interdisciplinary, student-choreographed dance concert at Muhlenberg College. Her most recent performance was in the 2026 iteration of In Motion, an annual faculty and guest-choreographed dance concert.

As part of her dance education concentration, Tegan took two courses: Teaching Dance Theories and Methods and Teaching Dance Techniques. Through those courses, Tegan received teaching opportunities with a kindergarten class at Muhlenberg Elementary School and a creative movement class for the three to four-year-olds at Muhlenberg Community Dance Center, respectively. 

In addition, as a young woman on the autism spectrum, Tegan is extremely passionate about disability advocacy. In her senior year of college, she was the president of the Muhlenberg Disability Advocacy Group, where she organized events and meetings on various aspects of disability. In the future, she hopes to work with young dancers with disabilities in a therapeutic setting and continue writing and publishing.

Artist Statement: 

I believe that dance is a form of expression that can serve as an alternative to verbalization. While some choreographic repertoires do use words, many do not. As a result, dance gives a voice to the voiceless. In my mind, there is no such thing as a dancer’s body. Dance is for all bodies, not just those who are stick-thin and fair-skinned. Someone’s race, gender, or disability status should not bar them from the art that is dance.