“Nature and art release sides in ourselves that our
social identities don't allow.” ~John Elder

Turquoise Grasshopper Productions™ (TGP)
Healing Performance. Creative Ritual. Soul Expression.

Turquoise Grasshopper Productions™ is the creative outgrowth of my personal recovery from trauma, mental illness, and disconnection. It mirrors the reclaiming of an ancient calling and legacy.

Turquoise Grasshopper Productions™ is the performance and creative arts branch of Morgyn Danae Wellness®. It exists to tell the truth of healing through movement, story, ritual, and embodiment.

Born from lived experience and decades of practice in the healing arts, TGP uses performance as medicine—for the performer and the audience. Through dance, poetry, spoken word, creative ritual, and multimedia storytelling, I share pieces of my own journey and hold space for collective transformation. My performances aren’t polished perfection. They’re prayers. They’re reclamations. They’re invitations into wholeness.

Whether I’m dancing in nature, performing at healing events, or choreographing work for mental health and trauma recovery conferences, I carry a message: that creative expression is a birthright, a salve, and a spark for change.

Mission: TGP is a creative platform for performance, public speaking, and creative projects that guide people, especially women, on their journey of trauma recovery, self-love, and spiritual healing through nature, movement, and holistic living. Drawing from the power of dance, creative expression, and the wisdom of natural cycles, we offer tools for reclaiming our bodies, reconnecting with the Earth, and embodying our divine feminine essence.

Grasshopper, the totem of many artists and dancers, symbolizes freedom, balance, and creative flow.

Turquoise brings spiritual grounding, emotional stability, and opens lines of heartfelt communication. Together, they represent the balance between art and nature, grounded creativity, and personal transformation.

TGP™ reaches the public through independent productions and community collaborations with conscious individuals, groups, non-profits, and for-profits committed to community and positive social and environmental justice and change; love-based reality...

With past lived experience of mental illness and a survivor of abuse (now thriver), I'm trained to address trauma and work as a somatic recovery coach & spiritual guide through dance, choreography, breath work, corrective fitness (sacred core-pelvic specialist), and massage therapist. This is the foundation for my commitment to support others to find their way back to themselves, their bodies, and their creative expression to live in joy and health.

How did I get the name Turquoise Grasshopper?

What does it mean?

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Through Turquoise Grasshopper Productions™, I offer both professional public speaking and transformative performance.
My voice moves between the podium and the stage—

bridging insight and inspiration, intellect and intuition.

Conscious Performance & Choreography

Performance is a vehicle for self-exploration, sharing a message, and inspiring others to open their hearts and consider new perspectives and realities.

Video performance & choreography reel coming soon…

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Public Speaking

Podcasts, Collaborations, Community Events, & Conferences.

From podcasts to conferences to community organizations and gatherings…
I share my recovery story and speak about the healing power of spiritual healing/faith, nature, dance, fitness, healthy lifestyle, and creative expression.

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Performer & Choreographer
Background

"Dancer, you must dance.

It’s your lifeline and medicine to share." ~Spirit

Dance has always been my lifeline—my way to survive, pray, express, and heal. I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, a cradle of jazz and soul. My parents were artists and free dancers. My US-born father, a jazz musician and Latin dance instructor, and my British mother, a devoted Beatles fan and keeper of the ancient magic of the British Isles, filled our home with music, creativity, and movement.

From dancing to funk and disco as a teen to discovering the soulful power of bellydance in my 20s, my dance journey has been one of personal rebirth. Bellydance gave me a language to reclaim my body from trauma and feel proud of my strength and sensuality. It became the root of my style—natural, feminine, fierce, and fluid.

I turn everyday movement into expressive dance—infusing strength training, somatic awareness, and emotion. Nature is my studio; I often dance and choreograph outdoors, letting the earth and sky guide me. Whether alone in the woods or onstage at a healing conference, dance is my prayer and offering.

As a choreographer, I draw from personal healing and intuitive exploration. My work has been featured at mental health events, women’s wellness programs, and creative performance venues.

Dance isn’t just performance—it’s how I live.

I’ve trained and performed in:

Cabaret Bellydance, Fusion, Improvisation

Modern Dance

Contact Improv
Avant Garde-Experimental

Entertainment Hula and Polynesian Dance

Latin Social Dancing (Salsa, Merengue, Cumbia)

Influences & Mentors:

Bellydance

with Kathryn Ferguson, Emma Holder, Joie Grandbois, Rosa Noreen

Modern Dance

with Jessica Lockhart

Polynesian Dance

with Victoria Boucher (Samoan lineage-Entertainment Hula)

Inspirations:

Barrie Chase, Pearl Primus, Mitzi Gaynor, Rita Hayworth, Katherine Dunham, Martha Graham, Gene Kelly

Have you really explored your experiences with and feelings about dance?

A bit more about my personal relationship to dance.

I never thought I'd want to study ballet. I hated it as a little girl for many reasons. It felt unnatural and rigid. My little body was stiff from holding sexual abuse trauma, no instructor supported or encouraged me, and, even then, my body type didn't fit the accepted image of a thin body and legs with straight lines. Then our community center offered a class for "creative free dance" where we danced in circles and ran around with scarves moving with joy and imagination. THIS was my class!

Dancing at parties as a teenager in the 1980's and then clubs in the '90's, the Latin dance forms of salsa, merengue, and Mexican cumbia blew me away with joy and opened another amazing and organic door of freedom through hip movement, rhythm, and social connection.

I didn't seriously take dance classes until my 20's. It was then that cabaret bellydance gave me a gentle re-introduction to balletic influences. Ultimately, it was the kind, unwavering support of my spiritual teacher in the 1990's and that embrace of bellydance in my 20’s that gave me the confidence to call myself a “dancer” and the dance vocabulary and style to help me find my voice as a performer and dance instructor. It allowed me to heal as a woman and feel my strength. It became a foundation to expand and explore dance in general.