Liz Mulkey: Choreographer, Creative Movement Direction, Dancer, Actor, and Fitness / Somatics / Embodied Anatomy teacher.
Her award-winning films & performance explore mental health, identity, and the grace of the natural world.
With over 20 years of experience teaching somatic movement, dance, and fitness—including a decade on faculty at Loyola Marymount University—she is passionate about helping people feel joyful in their bodies and catharsis through movement.
She loves to connect to teach, create, perform, or collaborate. Reach out!! lizmulkey.com
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Her work has been performed and screened nationally in classic and atypical venues:art galleries, community art-walks, pop-up shows, beaches, parks, shopping centers and theaters. She’s currently creating dance films and live performance as well as performing with dance, film, and theater companies.
Liz's award winning films have been screened at Dare To Dance in Public, Los Angeles, New York Short Film series, Mexico City Shorts, 92ndY Mobile Film Fest 2019 (NYC), New York Istanbul Short Film Festival, Dance Camera Istanbul, Iconic Image Film Festival (Lithuania), Short+Sweet Film Festival Illawarra (Australia), Absurd Film Festival (Italy), and 48 hour Film Festival Mike Esperanza (1st Runner-Up) (NYC). Golden College West Gallery (CA), and En Route in Maine. Liz collaborated with Hollywood director Heather Cappiello to create Reframe & Break Glass, both site-specific dances and adapted for film.
She produced and choreographed three site-specific pieces at Platform Culver City, Muscle Beach, and The Stockstill Space in Los Angeles, California and one at Engine Arts with JoAnna Medhel Shaw and Heather Lyons in Biddeford, Maine.
Her most recent show is at SPACE Gallery, Portalnd ME. OCT 5th 2025. Liz's collaborative performances have been at Movement Research (NYC), the Strub Theatre Loyola Marymount University, High Voltage and Max10 at the Electric Lodge, a Self produced Pop-up Show at Muscle Beach Venice (CA), and solo works at Green Street Studios (Boston, MA), The Living Room (Portland, ME). Her first evening length show was presented at the Tank Theater (NYC) after winning XYZ NYC.
She has danced for Alexandra Pirici for Highline Arts NYC and Summer Dance in Brooklyn Prospect Park with sculptor Fitzhugh Karol and choreographer Molly Hess. She danced for Alison Chase's (an original Pilobolus dancer) most recent film. In Maine, she dances with SubCircle.
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For a decade, she acted as part-time Faculty at the Dance Department of Loyola Marymount University teaching pilates, yoga, Laban Movement Analysis, Improvisation, and Introduction To Choreography courses for dancers and non-dancers .
She now, gratefully, teaches pop up- movement classes most recently at The Mill Museum, joined the teaching faculty at Casco Bay Movers, and Portland Art & Technology High School (PATHS) in Portland Maine
Liz teaches Improv, Choreography, Pilates, Yoga and Body Biomechanics. She received her B.A in Dance/DanceScience at Loyola Marymount University. She has had the honor of teaching dance at: her alma mater, Lion’s Jaw Performance + Dance Festival, Green Street Studios, Brooklyn Summer Street Fest, and The Moving Joint, Collective Motion, an artist practice and sustainability workshop with the The Living Room, and currently at Casco Bay Movers as well as online dance practices and wellness classes.
Lizzy loves to help people engage with movement and dance in a way that is creative and brings them joy in their specific body, honoring way they can and need to express.