Once, years ago, I was on a panel with my fellow choreographer Bella Lewitzky, one of the great exponents of modern dance on the West Coast. We got...

Surprise! There is no subject heading for dance in the classification system of the Library of Congress. Dance books are there for sure. (Mine are...

March 1, 2026 marked the fifty-first year since my mother’s death. I prefer to honor her on her birthday—February 4th, 1915—but this year was a...

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 they graze. A ten-minute...

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

My family had a unique way of celebrating Hannukah. My mother had made what she called a Hannukah Bag, several feet of blue fabric with eight...

It might have been a poster in a middle school classroom. Beautiful colors, hills and sky, mountains, gorges, lakes and something that said, “You...

This is an excerpt from the essay “School Stories” from Liz’s forthcoming book Shape and Momentum: An Insomniac's Guide to a World in Constant...

Sometimes I fear our interest in being inclusive leads to a generalization. So descendants become “who comes after you.” Actually this is a fine...

It’s an ongoing inquiry and practice. How to get folks to notice what is happening while it’s happening and then be able to harvest some small part...

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

  Once I accepted the commission from the Harvard Law School in 2005 to make a dance in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials,...

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. It’s a swirling, entirely...

There are many beautiful traditions within Judaism that have been passed down to me. The Judaism I have inherited comes with deep inquiry, a sense...