Elizabeth Schmuhl studied dance under one of the original members of the Paul Taylor Dance Company who also trained with Martha Graham and taught Graham technique to her: Eileen Cropley. Schmuhl continued her dance studies at the University of Michigan, and has been fortunate to learn from artists such as Bobbi Jene Smith, Lauri Stallings, Yin Yue, Ohad Naharin, Saar Harari, Peter Sparling, and many others.

Schmuhl has danced professionally in gloATL’s the room for tender choreographies, Celia Rowlson-Hall & Mia Lidofsky‘s powerful #PantSuitPosse!, and recently performed in Theotokos: Reimagining the Mother of God with world-renowned poet, Jamaal May, and interdisciplinary artist, Ari Mokdad, which was generously supported by the Lynch and Sons Fund for the Arts.

Elizabeth is committed to working for non-profits and has worked at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Gallim Dance, and currently serves as Artistic Managerfor Shamel Pitts.

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We will connect with our desire to move by using task-based prompts to warm up our bodies and uncover new and unexpected paths of movement. Awareness and listening will aid us in our exploration of dualities such as delicacy and fierceness, playfulness and seriousness, the seen and the unseen. Some partnering will take place in this class as a means to better connect with the individual, the universal, and the sacred.