Tess Angelica Losada-Tindall is a Cuban-American dancer, choreographer, and scholar. She has lived and danced in the south of France, central Illinois, New Orleans, and is currently based in St Louis where she is an adjunct professor at Webster University and Lindenwood University. Tess holds a Master’s of Fine Arts in Dance from Washington University in St. Louis, and a Bachelor’s of Arts in Dance Performance from Illinois State University.

 Tess’ artistic research considers liminality, cultural straddling, and diasporic grief. Her work is heavily inspired by her father’s stories of his migration away from Cuba and the rest of his life spent in exile. Her work has been performed nationally and internationally, most recently in Washington D.C., and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Tess’ MFA capstone work, “el cielo abajo”  is an embodied investigation into the past, present, and future memories of exile. This work was presented in a split bill show entitled “¿Te puedo contar algo?” in March 2025 at the Edison Theater in St Louis. In May of 2025, Tess traveled to Puerto Rico to conduct artistic research and create a new evening-length duet with collaborator Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebrón, funded by a Global Futures grant from WashU. This work, “mangle”, was performed at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St Louis as a part of their exhibition “Seeds; Containers of a World to Come”. 

Tess has been featured in works by Stephanie Martinez/PARAMAR, Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, Monika Weiss, Kesha McKey, Donna Crump, Jennifer Harge, and Laurie Merriman, among others. Tess is also a third generation classical Pilates teacher with more than a decade of teaching experience, certified by Alycea Ungaro’s Real Pilates NYC teacher training program. Tess combines her extensive Pilates experience with the study of anatomy and somatics for dancers in an effort to encourage deep kinesthetic awareness in her students.