Phoenix, AZ // Created CRP in 1990

Liz Lerman is a choreographer, writer, educator and speaker, and the recipient of honors including a 2002 MacArthur “Genius Grant” and a 2017 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. Key to her artistry is opening her process to various publics, resulting in research and outcomes that are participatory, urgent, and usable. She founded Dance Exchange in 1976 and led it until 2011.

Liz teaches Critical Response Process, creative research, the intersection of art and science, and the building of narrative within dance at institutions such as Harvard, Yale School of Drama, and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her upcoming book is Critique is Creative: The Critical Response Process in Theory and Action. As of 2016 she is an Institute Professor at Arizona State University.

Areas of interest:

• Institutional and organizational change
• Aesthetic equity
• CRP in the digital realm