Liv Schaffer is a social practice artist, choreographer, educator, and intergenerational practitioner working at the intersection of the arts and aging services. Her body-based research centers intergenerational dance as a methodology for strengthening social connection, cultivating belonging and care, advancing age equity, and imagining pluralistic futures.

Liv is a faculty member in the Performing Arts and Social Justice Department at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches contemporary dance and directs Dance Generators, the university’s intergenerational dance company. As Intergenerational Director with EngAGE, Inc., she designs programs that foster reciprocal relationships across generations within affordable housing communities throughout California and Oregon. She has served as a Community Engagement Artist with Jacob’s Pillow since 2014.

Liv holds a BFA from the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Program at Dominican University. She has performed with AXIS Dance Company, DanceWorks Chicago, Robert Moses’ Kin, and Dance Exchange, and her choreography has been presented by Jacob’s Pillow, ODC Theater, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, RAWdance SF, The Big Muddy Dance Company, and Western Michigan University. 

Liv is a 2026–2027 Eisner Prize Fellow, a 2026 Belonging Innovation Lab Narrative Fellow, a 2025 LABA Bay Area Fellow, and a 2021 CoGenerate Gen2Gen Innovation Fello