Erinn Liebhard

Teaching Artist

She/Her

Erinn Liebhard is a dance artist making opportunities for people to experience the reflective and connective power of groove through performance and education. Having grown up dancing socially at her dad’s rock band’s gigs, she discovered young the exhilaration of playfully experiencing groove alongside others. Guided by this inspiration and a fondness for jazz and American social dance ideas, she’s worked with creatives as varied as hip-hop dance theater artists Rennie Harris and the Wild Goose Chase Cloggers Appalachian clogging company.

In performance, she makes and performs new staged works and presents those of others through her company Rhythmically Speaking, and performs freelance and as self-created character “Nerdette” for St. Paul Saints Baseball’s Entertainment Team. She also creates new works for high schools, colleges and professional dance companies. Her creative works emphasize groove, interaction and improvisation, and are inspired by both social and concert dance movement – particularly American modern styles and forms with African diasporic roots – while often driven by contemporary jazz music.

In education, in addition to Young Dance, she has been faculty for many area arts high schools and universities, and is currently teaching at Winona State University. She also teaches in public schools, senior care, and other settings as a COMPAS Teaching Artist, conducts educational outreach through her company, and is an active writer, residency artist and conference presenter. She’s driven to help connect people to themselves, one another, and the moment through rooted and innovative embodiment of groove.

2026 Summer Teaching Roster: Music as Movement Camp

Photo by Galen Higgins