Elizabeth Pollert
Elizabeth Pollert is a Cleveland-based creator, performer and dance educator and works as an independent artist with area choreographers, movers and multi-genre makers.
She has performed and choreographed both in the U.S. and abroad, including in China, India, Easter Island and Chile. In the U.S., Pollert has performed and choreographed for Playhouse Square the Cleveland Art Museum and IngenuityFest, Cleveland, Ohio; International Performing Arts for Youth Conferences, Philadelphia; Lose Your Marbles Festival, Akron, Ohio; WOW Festival, San Diego; and Charlotte International Arts Festival, North Carolina. Additionally, she has toured with the children’s show What Do You Do With An Idea?
Pollert spent 16 seasons with Inlet Dance Theatre, Cleveland, where she served as a performing company member, education coordinator, and instructor and choreographer for Inlet’s education programming. Currently, she teaches at area studios and serves as a teaching artist for Dance Cleveland’s Read to Learn … Dance to Move dance literacy program. Pollert has been a selected choreographer with the Cleveland Dance Project and collaborates with Elu Dance and Ajayi Dance, and is a touring artist for Australian Polyglot Theatre’s Ants and Bees productions. She is passionate about making dance accessible to all ages and backgrounds and creates work that invites people to experience the world through embodied experiences. Elizabeth holds a BFA in Dance from Belhaven University, Jackson, Mississippi.