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Being in a Different Country
I got up this morning. Day two in New Zealand. Day two of taking a five-minute walk from my Airbnb to visit the sheep as...
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...
The Jewish Holidays in 2025
My family had a unique way of celebrating Hannukah. My mother had made what she called a Hannukah Bag, several feet of blue...
Trips with My Daughter Anna
It might have been a poster in a middle school classroom. Beautiful colors, hills and sky, mountains, gorges, lakes and...
Why I’ve Never Enjoyed Grading
This is an excerpt from the essay “School Stories” from Liz’s forthcoming book Shape and Momentum: An...
Active belonging
Sometimes I fear our interest in being inclusive leads to a generalization. So descendants become “who comes after...
What just happened?
It’s an ongoing inquiry and practice. How to get folks to notice what is happening while it’s happening and...
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...
Nature and nurture
In 2007, Liz and members of the Dance Exchange were invited to Japan to facilitate workshops with the Kyoto Art...
Regarding governance. Or send in the Crones.
Once I accepted the commission from the Harvard Law School in 2005 to make a dance in honor of the 60th anniversary...
This is a time for speaking
There are many beautiful traditions within Judaism that have been passed down to me. The Judaism I have inherited comes...
A conversation with the Covenant Foundation
This was a 2020 interview that Liz did with the Covenant Foundation after completing a grant cycle. What is on your...
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....
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...
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...
Dances for Martha: A remake of Appalachian Spring
Field Notes from Liz Lerman Last month Jim Ross and I premiered our latest project. The orchestra memorized “Appalachian...
What I didn’t say at Dance/USA
Field Notes from Liz Lerman It was such a surprising moment to be honored at Dance/USA a few weeks ago. Jawole Zollar’s...
Toolbox as Documentation
Field Notes from Liz Lerman I am interested in how we observe our processes, discern them as repeatable actions, develop...
Artists Without Edges
Field Notes from Liz Lerman Artists know that if categorized in one way, it will be hard to get observers, presenters,...
The Amazing Rebecca Blunk
Field Notes from Liz Lerman Today we got news that the amazing Rebecca Blunk will be stepping down as head of the New...
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