by Liz Lerman | Jan 22, 2019 | Timeline
2017 – American Dance Festival Award Leah Cox asked if I would accept the American Dance Festival’s 2017 Balasaraswati/Joy Anne Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching. I thought, you never know what people are doing with the ideas and processes...
by Liz Lerman | May 18, 2018 | Timeline
2006 – Ferocious Beauty: Genome There were all kinds of moments in making Ferocious Beauty: Genome where the subjects (the scientists) changed the subject, or at least the approach to the dance. For example, I had no idea what I was going to do when I was...
by Liz Lerman | May 17, 2018 | Timeline
2016 – Liz accepts her first-ever full-time faculty job Arizona State University dean Steven Tepper called me out of the blue and asked me to come work there at ASU. It’s a nice thing to hear at a certain time in your life. I wasn’t ready to sign on, so I...
by Liz Lerman | May 17, 2018 | Timeline
2014 – Healing Wars There are so many stories in each project. And hopefully, breakthroughs in structure, systems, processes. In the case of Healing Wars I tried a lot of new things because I was newly without an organization. Among the experiments I forwarded...
by Liz Lerman | May 17, 2018 | Timeline
2008 – Liz takes a research team to CERN Dancer Ben Wegman among the server racks at CERN The minute I walked onto the CERN campus I was reminded of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a project we had done a long time ago where we visited repeatedly over the span of...
by Liz Lerman | May 17, 2018 | Timeline
2005 – Small Dances About Big Ideas Small Dances about Big Ideas was the result of Harvard Law School’s commission to me to make a dance in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg war trials. When Dr. Martha Minow, who was shortly to become dean...
