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Peiqi Emily Liu (she/they) is a dancer, choreographer, and performer. Born and raised in Shenzhen, China, Liu began dancing at the age of four and has trained across forms, including Chinese traditional dance, hip-hop, popping, ballet, locking, house, and contemporary/modern dance. Liu’s exposure to different cultures, embodied practices, and music genres has shaped her into a multidisciplinary artist, unbounded in her experimentation with movement, collaboration, and interdisciplinary creation. Liu has a deep obsession with improvisation, which she embodies with her entire being.

Liu is completing her BFA in dance at the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, where she has expanded her practice through Gaga, partnering, and more. Her training also includes Jiří Kylián and Marco Goecke’s intensives at Orsolina28, Springboard Danse Pittsburgh, and GagaLabs. At USC, Liu has had the honor of performing works by Jiří Kylián, JA Collective, Shahar Binyamini, Bret Easterling, and Spenser Theberge.

Liu loves creating proscenium and site-specific works that blend live music, text, objects, and radical movement. She choreographed and directed an evening-length dance theatre work, INNERSTICE, in collaboration with composer Takumi Kakimoto. Another of her creations, edge of the shore, a ten-minute quintet that breathes in a surreal world, was selected for Choreographer Collection Los Angeles’s Spring Works. Liu is also a true street dancer and popper who has won many medals in street dance freestyle battles. She aspires to join a contemporary dance company while continuing to create and experiment.