LIZ CASEBOLT, Professor of Dance, has a BFA in Dance from New York University, and a MFA in Dance/Experimental Choreography from UC Riverside. Throughout her career Liz has had the good fortune to work and study with a number of acclaimed dance scholars and choreographers, including Doug Varone, Joe Goode, Keith Johnson, Susan Rose, Linda Tomko, Cliff Keuter,  Ellen Bromberg, Wendy Rogers and Ann Carlson. Liz has performed with Partridge/Benford/Dance/Music and Claire Henry and Dancers, and with Center Dance Ensemble, where she performed lead roles in Hamlet, La Llorona, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Snow Queen. In Los Angeles, Liz has performed with Susan Rose and Dancers and Hassan Christopher’s The Compaany of Strangers. 

 

Liz is currently Co-Artistic Director of casebolt and smith, a Los Angeles based duet dance theater company that has quickly become known for its unique and creative voice. Called “the Nichols and May of dance” by the LA Times, and “the most entertaining, engaging and explicative dance theater on the planet” by MinnPost, casebolt and smith’s work exposes their choreographic and collaborative processes and delves into issues of power, gender and identity with a focus on craft, humor and accessibility. casebolt and smith perform nationally and internationally, including at Joyce SoHo in New York City, the Vancouver International Dance Festival, Southern Theater Minneapolis, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and CounterPulse in San Francisco.

 

An avid dance educator, Liz has taught dance to thousands of children and teens throughout Arizona and California.  She has also been on faculty at Cal State Long Beach, Scottsdale College, Phoenix College, Cerritos College, Rio Hondo College, College of the Canyons and El Camino College and has taught master classes at UC Irvine, CalArts, The Marlborough School, and the University of Surrey in England. Liz has been a full-time faculty member at LAVC since Spring 2011, teaching Modern, Jazz, Yoga, Ballet, Choreography, Dance Production, History and Appreciation of Dance, and Dance Rehearsals and Performance, and directing the Fall Dance Showcase and Spring Dance Production.