Reviewed as “a remarkable contemporary dance display,” Elizabeth Shea is a dance artist/scholar/educator whose work has been produced by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and presented at numerous festivals and major cities across the USA, as well as in Australia, Israel, and China. Liz has been a guest and collaborating artist for many professional companies and universities, and creates extensively in new media and film, screening her work at film festivals internationally. Awards include Best Choreography for the Lens, Best Dance Film, and Best Ensemble. Liz specializes in somatic theory and practice, teaching her self-developed system, SomaLab®, a framework for inclusive movement practice, and choreographic methods at workshops both home and abroad. She is the author of The Practiced Body: A Contemporary Approach to Somatic Applications in Dance and Movement, in process. A 500-hour RYT, Liz is Professor and Director of Contemporary Dance at Indiana University.
