I came of age as a choreographer in Washington D.C., which meant that to me, the Kennedy Center...

She showed up—age 59—for an audition for a social dance club, and wanted to leave the moment she...

Every culture has its dance forms, and all dance forms have their teachers. Since the dawn of...

Dramaturgy as a name and a concept was not part of my early training, or even my early thinking as...

It's been a great couple of months for sports fans. Basketball, the World Cup, and for people like...

So I lived with the images of shape and momentum for a decade, and tested the clarity the concept...

An excerpt from Shape and Momentum: An Insomniac’s Guide to a World in Constant Motion I need...

Investigating hierarchies: 1962-1975 Between ages 14 and 27, I experimented with taking dance...

I am interested in… remembering why I started to dance and how happy I was at that moment what we...

Once, years ago, I was on a panel with my fellow choreographer Bella Lewitzky, one of the great...

I am a trader, moving ideas through the body In between people Communities Institutions Trade...

Surprise! There is no subject heading for dance in the classification system of the Library of...

March 1, 2026 marked the fifty-first year since my mother’s death. I prefer to honor her on her...

I got up this morning. Day two in New Zealand. Day two of taking a five-minute walk from my Airbnb...

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

My family had a unique way of celebrating Hannukah. My mother had made what she called a Hannukah...

It might have been a poster in a middle school classroom. Beautiful colors, hills and sky,...

This is an excerpt from the essay “School Stories” from Liz’s forthcoming book Shape and Momentum:...

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

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