Tess Angélica Losada-Tindall is a Franco-Cuban dancer, choreographer, scholar, and educator. Tess is a faculty member in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Alabama.  She has lived and danced in the south of France, central Illinois, New Orleans, and most recently in St. Louis where she taught in the Dance departments at  Lindenwood University and Webster University.

Tess holds a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from Washington University in St. Louis, and a Bachelor of Arts in Dance Performance from Illinois State University. Tess’ artistic research considers liminality, cultural straddling, and diasporic grief. Her work has been performed nationally and internationally, most recently in Washington D.C., and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Tess is the co-director of Antropocuerpo, a Caribbean collective that creates movement encounters that center the Caribbean body as a living archive. In 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.