Born in Montréal, Liz grew up in Toronto and attended The Ontario College of Art, where she graduated in sculpture. The next year she followed her family back to Québec and enrolled in a M.F.A. program at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia).

Ronald K. Brown is the founder and artistic director of the New York-based contemporary dance ensemble, Evidence, A Dance Company, (founded in 1985).  Besides choreographing for Evidence, he has also created work for the African American Dance Ensemble, Philadanco, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance