Irene Liu
Resident Choreographer
Artistic StaffDancerSchool Faculty
A William J. Gillespie scholar, Irene Liu holds a BFA in Dance Performance from UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts. In 2020 she founded Ballet Infinity in San Mateo, California, and in 2023 hired Joseph Phillips onto its faculty. In 2024 the two opened and co-directed El Camino Ballet.
She has choreographed for the USA International Ballet Competition and has created and coached many competition pieces, most often for Youth America Grand Prix. Her students have won top prizes at YAGP, the American Dance Competition, and the World Ballet Competition, and her graduates have gone on to the Boston Ballet pre-professional program, The Washington Ballet, and Complexions.
She has assisted Yuri Possokhov of San Francisco Ballet and has also staged works for Sacramento Ballet. Since becoming Resident Choreographer in 2025, she has created works for the LifeChance Gala, including L’Amour Chalamet, and for Project 27, where she returns with new work this season.