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Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, teacher, and speaker. She has spent the past four decades making her artistic research personal, funny, intellectually vivid, and up to the minute. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to everyone from shipbuilders to physicists, construction workers to ballerinas, resulting in both research and experiences that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others.

“I help others when they come to me and ask. I work in this country and abroad in settings that continue to forge my thinking, make me bolder, and let me interrogate the next generations of artists. It is wide open at the moment. I am a little frightened, a lot more curious, and full of wonder and grief as I gaze around me.”

– Liz Lerman

“I help others when they come to me and ask. I work in this country and abroad in settings that continue to forge my thinking, make me bolder, and let me interrogate the next generations of artists. It is wide open at the moment. I am a little frightened, a lot more curious, and full of wonder and grief as I gaze around me.”

– Liz Lerman

News

Exhibition at YBCA

Spring 2023

Liz and visual artist Brett Cook have spent three years as Senior Fellows at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. As a culmination of their time together, they created a new exhibition Brett Cook and Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action. Learn more about the exhibit here.

Liz at MICA

Spring 2023

Liz was at Maryland Institute College of the Arts in March, speaking to first-year students, meeting with faculty about Critical Response Process,  and discussing the power of creative research. Watch her keynote here.

Guggenheim Fellowship 

Spring 2023

Liz was named a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in the Creative Arts (Choreography) alongside five other dancemaker colleagues. “It is so wonderful to be acknowledged by one’s peers – the first time I applied for the Guggenheim was 1978 and the great Alan Kriegsman was one of my recommenders. I’m so fortunate to have kept making work with the support of so many people.”

Wicked Bodies

Inspired by powerful and grotesque images of women’s bodies over multiple historic periods, Wicked Bodies is a new evening-length work by choreographer Liz Lerman.

Wicked Bodies premiered at the Green Music Center in Sonoma, California, and toured to Jacob’s Pillow August 10-13, 2022, ASU Gammage on September 24, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts October 28-30.

Critical Response Process

Liz Lerman Critical Response Process

Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process (CRP) is a method for giving and getting feedback on work in progress, designed to leave the maker eager and motivated to get back to work.

Through the supportive structure of its four steps, CRP combines the power of questions with the focus and challenge of informed dialogue. Offering makers an active role in the critique of their own work, it rehearses the connections we seek when art meets its audience or a product meets its purpose.

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