Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder is an artist and writer from Queens, New York and is currently based in Iowa City. She grew up dancing and performing in New York, including for Columbia University’s dance collective Orchesis. 

In 2009, she cofounded Liberated Movement, a nonprofit to make dance more accessible in New York City and taught classes there and elsewhere in the city. She studied a style of bhangra dance called Masala Bhangra under Sarina Jain and traveled to India to film a dance instructional video and continued to teach this energetic, fun style around NYC and Long Island. From 2011-2015, she moved to Mississippi for graduate school and taught and danced at Oxford Ballet School where she expanded her experience to young children and beginner adults. 

After moving to Iowa, she continued to teach for the University of Iowa Youth and Community Dance School, while also performing as a movement artist in collaboration with others in Iowa City.  She writes about performance and art, including her book The Revolution Will Be Improvised (University of Michigan Press, 2024) and teaches classes in the English and American Studies departments as a professor.