Liz Hynes is currently a second year company member of the Michigan Dance Project, directed by Kathy King.  She is in the process of earning her B.S. in Dance Performance at Eastern Michigan University and will graduate in the Spring of 2013.  Liz currently teaches contemporary, improvisation, jazz, strength and conditioning, pom, and technique classes as a competition instructor to young dancers ranging from 7 to 20 years of age at Elite Dance Force in Canton, MI.  She has taught at Elite Dance Force since 2009.  She also coaches three levels of competitive Universal Dance Team All-Star pom pon teams within Elite Dance Force.  Much of her work has been awarded choreography awards and top overall high scores both regionally and nationally on the competition circuit.



Liz received her early training from various studios in the Plymouth-Canton area including La Dance, Encore Dance Academy, Masters of Dance Arts Inc., and Dance Athletics Competitive Edge.  Liz was part of the Salem High School Varsity dance team from 2003-2007.  She was part of the Universal Dance Association’s All-American Team from 2005-2007.  Through EMU dance department, Liz has performed works choreographed by Cate Brown, Wendi DuBois, Holly Hobbs, Kathy King, Erik Abbot-Main, Phil Simmons, Shauna Steele, Sherry Jerome Wilkinson, and Ali Woerner.  Among the many performance opportunities Liz participates in at EMU, she has also performed at the adjudicated as well as informal concerts at the American College Dance Festival (2011, 2012, and 2013), Get Up and Move (2011), the Oakland Dance Festival (2011, 2012, 2013), “Cars and Stars” at the Detroit Music Hall choreographed by Ron De Jesus (2012), and most recently Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, ME performing Puppetville, a modern work choreographed by New York choreographer Larry Keigwin.  Separate from her rigorous dance education at EMU with professors and dance professionals listed above, Liz has had the opportunity of taking class from Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Alicia Cutaia of Eisenhower Dance Ensemble, Hubbard Street Dance-Chicago, Larry Keigwin, Claudia Lavista, Erik Abbott-Main, Sarah Magoon, Paul Matteson, Mark Morris, Liz Schmidt, and Nicole Wolcott.  Liz also recently appeared in the Detroit Institute of Arts commercial advertising the “Art is for Everyone” campaign.  Liz’s personal movement style is contemporary.