DANCE WITH US!

Liz Vacco is a Los Angeles based arts educator, performer, and choreographer.  She believes that dance is for everyone and especially enjoys introducing dance to the youngest movers with the hope that movement will be a fundamental part of their childhood and their lifelong experience.

She has created a series of instructional dance videos for children entitled Petite Feet and offers dance classes in the Los Angeles area under the same name.  From 2015-2023, she led the dance and arts department at Gabriella Charter Schools, a public charter school organization where all students receive arts instruction on a daily basis.  Her teaching is informed by her studies in theater at Yale and in education at Cal State Los Angeles, where she also received her multiple subject and kinesiology teaching credentials, as well as training with Anne Green Gilbert and the Creative Dance Center, through the DEL Institute, at Karma Kids Yoga and through Baby Om.  She has always been a dancer who acts and an actor who dances, and she draws from both of these disciplines in her teaching and performance.  She also loves creating kinesthetic experiences that allow students to explore other content - math, literature, science, socio-emotional well-being, etc. - through movement and theater.

As a performer and creator, she has worked with Les Freres Corbusier, The Collapsable Giraffe, Fovea Floods, Gold No Trade, One Year Lease, Sidra Bell NY and at St. Ann’s Warehouse, P.S. 122, Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theater, Mount San Antonio College, and at the Hangar Theater.  In addition to performing at a variety of venues in the United States, she has also performed in Athens, Greece, Milan, Italy and Shanghai, China.  She is a founding member and board member of the non-profit performance collaborative, Immediate Medium, with whom she created shows and performed for over ten years.