MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
LIZ FIELDS
Liz Fields is a professional dancer/choreographer and teacher originally from Brooklyn, NY. Growing up in New York, she trained in ballet, contemporary, jazz and modern starting at the age of six. She went on to study at esteemed institutions such as Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts where she majored in dance and spent her senior year of high school studying at the Martha Graham School’s teen program. She graduated from the George Mason University School of Dance in 2022 with a BFA in Dance Performance. Upon returning to New York after college, she found her love of teaching at a preschool in Brooklyn Heights where she worked as an assistant teacher. She brought her love of dance into the classroom to help cultivate children’s creativity, curiosity, and ever expanding imagination. She found that it also helped children learn agency in their bodies and more attuned proprioceptive skills as they began to explore more sovereignty at each stage of their development.
For all ages, Liz believes that the power of dance can be used as a tool to help regain a sense of self within the body. She has found that dancing together helps connect one to their community, their environment, and to themselves. She feels passionately about conducting a class that brings each individual back into themselves as a celebration of who they are now and who they are becoming! Liz is curious about the way movement can inform us about our alignment and our joy. In her professional career, Liz has worked with choreographers such as Larry Keigwin, Alejandro Cerrudo, Bill T Jones, Blakeley White-McGuire, and more. She has performed and choreographed in festivals throughout New York City and has hopes to do the same in the San Diego dance community. Aside from dance and teaching, Liz works as a 1-1 assisted stretcher at Stretch*d Encinitas where she helps clients with injury prevention and rehabilitation and to inform them of their own personal structure that they inhabit.
She is so excited to bring her love of dance and movement to the Rancho Santa Fe Community Center and looks forward to helping the members of the community find themselves in their bodies!