Liz Lerman’s blog

Liz is full of ideas, which she tests and explores through creative research, teaching, performances, keynotes, essays, and full-length books.

And, yes, she also blogs, albeit intermittently.

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Geothermal Origins

I had always wanted to go to New Zealand, though the origins of my interest remain cloudy to me. I am grateful that my...

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Active belonging

Sometimes I fear our interest in being inclusive leads to a generalization. So descendants become “who comes after...

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What just happened?

It’s an ongoing inquiry and practice. How to get folks to notice what is happening while it’s happening and...

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Questioning orthodoxy

My Rabbi Danny Zemel often says “if it is not broken, break it.”  There are two things people have said about me that I...

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Nature and nurture

  In 2007, Liz and members of the Dance Exchange were invited to Japan to facilitate workshops with the Kyoto Art...

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Living in chaos

Let’s consider the Big Bang as a fable. In an instant, not even an instant, we are all born. All of it. Yet it is nothing....

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Today I am 67 years old.

Today I am 67 years old.

Field Notes from Liz Lerman This post was written on my birthday, December 25th, 2014 while I was visiting my daughter in...

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Risk. Purpose. Love.

Risk. Purpose. Love.

Field Notes from Liz Lerman Yesterday was Veteran’s Day. I think we need these reminder days that give us all a chance to...

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Toolbox as Documentation

Toolbox as Documentation

Field Notes from Liz Lerman I am interested in how we observe our processes, discern them as repeatable actions, develop...

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Artists Without Edges

Artists Without Edges

Field Notes from Liz Lerman Artists know that if categorized in one way, it will be hard to get observers, presenters,...

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