Ms. Terrie began dancing at the age of 5 and began teaching at 15 for the Baldwin-Copeland Studio of Dance. She taught students of all ages tap, ballet, jazz, Pointe, clogging, acrobatics. In 1989 Terrie moved to Atlanta and then to Raleigh where she taught dance classes at several studios. Upon her return to Wilmington, at 26, she continued to instruct students privately for pageants and dance competitions. Under her instruction many dancers have won numerous awards, scholarships and recognition in the dance arena and some have opened their own dance schools. Her routines and dancers have been awarded regional & national honors for choreography, dance spirit, overall placements, grand championships, etc. In 1993 Ms. Terrie opened Techniques In Motion School of Dance. She attributes her teaching techniques, ethics and values to the traditional styles of Mrs. Betty Baldwin and in the most recent years to the styles of Mike Minery, Christopher Smith and Anthony LoCascio. She continues to gain enthusiasm and passion for her teaching from the importance of making a positive difference in her student's lives, being a role model and mentor and to the blessings of family, friends, past, current and future students and their families. Ms. Terrie is proud of her son Kameron King, who is one of twelve college students chosen from hundreds of UNC-G students to participate in the Disney College Program at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida this year and thousands applied from across the world! Kameron will be in Disney from July, 2009 until January 2010...GO KAM! Kameron had the co-Lead in the award winning Television Pilot, "Undoing Time" Kameron was a TIM elite KMotion character/hip-hop competition team member for six years.
Model, dancer and actress, Terrie Batson’s diverse artistic career includes being a Runway and Print Model as well as featured in several area & National TV Commercials & National Print Ads. She has acted in major feature films including Mary in "Cyborg" with Jean Claude VanDamme, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II, “29th Street” and in several Wilmington area Independent feature films. Her acting career also includes appearances in Television productions such as “Young Indiana Jones”, “In A Childs Name”, “Bitter Blood” and most recently in “One Tree Hill”, and recent featured roles in Wilmington, NC film productions of “The Gritters” and “Change”. Theatre productions include Thalian Hall Theatre productions of “Chicago”, “West Side Story” and BrownCoat Theatre productions “Namaste, Indiana”, “Catastropolis” and “Monk’s Brew”.