Elizabeth Burke

Elizabeth Burke is a New York City based tap dancer, performer, choreographer, and educator from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She has been performing and touring with MacArthur Fellow Michelle Dorrance’s company, Dorrance Dance, full time since their inaugural season; she is a principal dancer and serves as the dance captain.

As a youth, she spent 11 years under the direction of her mentor, JUBA Award winner Gene Medler, in the critically acclaimed North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble, touring and performing across the United States and internationally. Elizabeth is also an alumna of the School at Jacob’s Pillow at Marymount Manhattan College.

For years, she has enjoyed collaborating and performing with fellow tap dancer and one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” Luke Hickey; most recently, they premiered their co-choreographed A Swing Suite at 92NY.

Elizabeth is also a passionate teacher, frequently teaching across the US and internationally in dance festival settings.

Stage credits include The Joyce Theater; New York City Center; The Kennedy Center; Sadler’s Wells; Jacob’s Pillow; Vail Dance Festival; the Guggenheim Rotunda Project; and the American Dance Festival. You can find her in the occasional music video and short film, and almost surely not posting on the internet @elizabethrburke.