Tereka started her training in the arts at Young People’s Theatre followed by studies in Modern, Ballet and Afro Diasporic dance forms at Children & Youth Dance Theatre of Toronto and Theatre Performance at Humber College. She has spent four seasons with Kashedance, most recently performing the successful Facing Home: Love and Redemption (choreographed by Kevin Ormsby and Chris Walker) including tours to Kingston (Jamaica), New York, Madison (Wisconsin,) and Carifesta XIII (Barbados); as well as a presentation of Recalcitare at the Re:generations Festival in Birmingham (UK).

She has also worked with various Contemporary, Afro Diasporic, Musical Theatre and Burlesque artists including Jose Carret (DanzaCorpus), Arsenio Andrade (Kashedance), Ronald Taylor (Ronald Taylor Dance), Adrianna Yanuziello (Dance Migration), Victoria MataSoledad (MataDanze Collective), Jasmyn Fyffe, the wind In the leaves collective and Expect Theatre. Highlights include Shades (Esie Mensah), Tribute to Harry Belafonte (Melissa Noventa), White Light Follies and Portrait of a Scandal (High Society Cabaret), Sister Act (Lower Ossington Theatre) and Shameka Blake’s Artists in Motion in a 2018 Dance Ontario Commission of Child Soldier.