Notable press
Awards & honors
- The “Creative Adventure” and “Food for the Soul” of the 2024 Dance Magazine Awards | Dance Magazine | December 2024
- Herberger Institute Professor Liz Lerman to be Honored as Dance Magazine Award Winner | ASU News | November 2024
- Herberger Institute Professor Liz Lerman Honored as 2023 Guggenheim Fellow | ASU News | May 2023
- Lerman and Trinh New Honorary Doctors at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts | University of Gothenberg | November 2021
- Saving and Sharing a Dance Legacy | Maryland Today | March 2019
- From Baryshnikov to Judith Jamison, These 6 Dance Artists’ Commencement Speeches Will Inspire You | Dance Magazine | June 2018
- The Most Influential People in Dance Today: Liz Lerman | Dance Magazine | June 2017
- We Need Liz Lerman Now More Than Ever | Dance Magazine | April 2017
- Watch the Works of Liz Lerman, Winner of 2017 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award | The New York Times | March 2017
- Liz Lerman Receives Jacob’s Pillow Honor – A Life of Ongoing Exploration | Dance Informa | May 2015
- Surdna Foundation Awards IRC Funds for Liz Lerman Residency | UMBC Research News | November 2014
- Liz Lerman – MacArthur Fellow | MacArthur Foundation | 2002
Critical Response Process
- Feedback That Inspires | ASU News | March 2023
- Critique is Creative Wins Book Award | University of Georgia | 2023
- How to Get Meaningful Feedback on Your Choreographic Work—and What to do With it | Dance Magazine | September 2022
Teaching
- Science Exposed Showcase Blends ASU Research with Art | The State Press | April 2018
- ASU’s ‘Science Exposed’ Merges Art and Science to Increase Awareness | DISRUPT | 2018
- Bringing Science to Life Through Art | ASU News | April 2017
- Adding Art to Academics | The Harvard Gazette | December 2011
Speaking engagements & interviews
- ‘Do not boo. Vote’: Obama’s Words Inspired this ASU professor to Help People Do Things Differently | KJZZ | August 2024
- Choreographer Liz Lerman on Pandemic: ‘Our Imaginations Come to Us at Times of Stress and Need’ | KJZZ | March 2023
- Liz Lerman: Stepping Up | PBS Articulate | November 2020
- ‘Be Radical:’ Bennington College Graduates 83rd class | Bennington Banner | June 2018
- Things I am Learning from Liz Lerman: Leadership, Arts Equity, and Changing Shape in the Time of #metoo | Dance Enthusiast | February 2018
- Choreographer Liz Lerman on the Ups and Downs of Aging | The Washington Post | June 2013
- Liz Lerman’s Aesthetic of Inquiry | Wake Forest News | April 2012
Wicked Bodies (2022)
- ‘Wicked Bodies,’ Inspired by Witches, Explores how the System has Stoked Fear of the Female Body | Datebook/San Francisco Chronicle | October 2022
- Which Witches? Choreographer Liz Lerman’s Coven is Here to Dance | 48hills | October 2022
- Bay Area Dance Fans, Here are 5 Shows to see this Weekend | The Mercury News | October 2022
- Yerba Buena Center For The Arts Presents Liz Lerman’s Wicked Bodies | Broadway World | September 2022
- Interactive Dance Performance Asks Audiences: ‘Good or Bad: Which Witch is Which?’ | ASU News | September 2022
- Witches, Dancers, and Human Rights Take the Stage at ASU Gammage | KJZZ Phoenix | September 2022
- Coming Home: ASU Dance Alum to Perform New Lerman Work at Gammage | ASU News | September 2022
- Celebrating 90 years, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Reopens its Newly Renovated Theater to a Host of Performances | Boston Globe | May 2022
- SSU Dance Students and Faculty Take Part in the Premiere of Liz Lerman’s “Wicked Bodies” | Sonoma State | April 2022
- Famed Choreographer Debuts Dance at Green Music Center | Press Democrat | April 2022
- Lagging Ticket Sales, Sets Stuck on Ships: The Dance World is Struggling to Get Back on its Feet | Washington Post | March 2022
- Liz Lerman’s Latest Work Is Inspired By Witchcraft Imagery | Dance Magazine | July 2020
- Dealing With the Disappointment of Getting Covid-Cancelled | Dance Magazine | April 2020
- Open Process with Liz Lerman | ArtLab Harvard | April 2019
- Wicked Bodies Work-in-Progress Showing | LA Dance Chronicle | February 2019
- In Liz Lerman’s ‘Wicked Bodies’ Performance, Audience Invited into Choreographic Process | The Student Life | February 2019
- Every Witch Has a Story | Fjord Review |
Treadmill Tapes (2017)
- Finding Solutions One Step at a Time | ASU News | May 2017
- Walking Through a Conversation: The Treadmill Tapes | The State Press | January 2017
Healing Wars (2014)
- Production Aims to Bring Healing to Veterans | ASU News | November 2021
- ASU professor, Students bring New Perspective to Lerman Production | ASU News | October 2021
- An Artist Tackles Life, Loss and What Comes Next: Liz Lerman’s “Healing Wars” Opens in Washington, DC | Covenant Foundation | December 2018
- Review: ‘Healing Wars’ a Vivid Look at the Fight to Recover | San Diego Tribune | August 2016
- Liz Lerman brings ‘Healing Wars,’ a Theatrical Wance Work with a Virginia Tech connection, to Campus | VTech News | March 2015
- Haunting, Cathartic ‘Healing Wars’ Hits Home | San Diego Story | October 2015
- Liz Lerman’s “Healing Wars” -The 150th Anniversary of the Civil War Reminds Us Where We Are Today | Dance Enthusiast | October 2014
- Hancher to present ‘Healing Wars’ by Contemporary Dance Pioneer Liz Lerman | Iowa Now | October 2014
- Nursing Wounds Deeper Than Scars | New York Times | September 2014
- Veterans and Doctors, Nurses Honored in Liz Lerman’s “Healing Wars” at Peak Performances | Montclair Local | September 2014
- Choreographer Liz Lerman probes America’s wounds in ‘Healing Wars’ | NJ.com | August 2014
- Liz Lerman’s Healing Wars Provides Unique Theatrical Experience at Arena Stage | The Baltimore Sun | June 2014
- ‘Healing Wars’ at Arena Stage Depicts Veterans Struggles Through Dance | The Washington Post | June 2014
- Healing Wars at Arena Stage Traces the Nation’s Steps in Coping with Combat’s Toll | The Washington Post | June 2014
- Healing Wars | Theater Mania | June 2014
- Recollections of Warriors, Redeployed Into Dance | The New York Times | June 2014
- Healing the Wounds of War Through Dance | GW Today | June 2014
- Healing Wars, a Performance That Must Be Seen | DC Theatre Watch | June 2014
- Student-Veterans Inspire Collaborative Modern Dance Work | Florida State University News | May 2014
- In war, what happens to the bodies? Liz Lerman explores answers in Healing Wars | DC Theatre Scene | May 2014
- Center for the Arts brings choreographer Liz Lerman to campus to engage with researchers, faculty, and students for dance-theatre project | VTech News | March 2013
- Universities Join Artists to Conjure the Civil War | The New York Times | February 2013
- ‘The Civil War and American Art’ is one of the first in a wave of regional creative projects on the conflict | The Baltimore Sun
Appalachian Spring (2014)
- Liz Lerman: Appalachian Spring | Critical Dance | May 2014
- Choreographer Liz Lerman brings UMD Orchestra to its feet in Appalachian Spring | The Washington Post | May 2014
- Appalachian Spring at UMD | Listeners Club | May 2014
- NSO “New Moves” and UMD “Appalachian Spring” Join Dance with Orchestras | The Washington Post | May 2014
- Breathtaking | Arts Journal | May 2012
Blood, Muscle, Bone (2013)
- Students Explore the Nature of Movement in Performative Teach-In for “Blood, Muscle, Bone” | The Wesleyan Argus | November 2013
- Sewon Kang ’14 on the course “Blood, Muscle, Bone: The Anatomy of Wealth and Poverty” | Creative Campus | November 2013
- Impressions of: Blood, Muscle, Bone: the Anatomy of Wealth and Poverty | The Dance Enthusiast | October 2013
The Matter of Origins (2010)
- Liz Lerman’s Aesthetic of Inquiry | Wake Forest University | April 2012
- This Year’s Top Ten in Dance | NJ.com | December 2011
- The Matter of Origins: Evaluation Findings | Michigan State University | Fall 2011
- After Science Meets Art, Everyone Gets Some Cake | The New York Times | March 2011
- ‘The Matter of Origins’ preview: A lively science-themed show comes to Montclair | NJ.com | March 2011
- Who’s Who in the Creation of “The Matter of Origins” | Wesleyan Center for the Arts | February 2011
- The Matter of Origins | CERN Inside Story | November 2010
- Physics Stars in Theater, Music and Dance | American Physical Society | November 2010
- First Steps | Tablet Magazine | October 2010
- Dance review: Liz Lerman Achieves Sublime Fusion of Art and Physics | The Washington Post | September 2010
- Dancing Physica and Society: The Matter of Origins | The Neutron Trail | September 2010
- Interview with choreographer Liz Lerman & physicist Bill Dorland: Rearranging the Way We Think About Things | The Clarice UMD | September 2010
613 Radical Acts of Prayer (2007)
- Lerman Transforms Meaning of Dance | The Brown Daily Herald | February 2008
- Dance Exchange Weaves, Moves, and Prays | The Brown Daily Herald | January 2008
- One Troupe’s Exploration of Big Ideas | The New York Times | April 2007
Man/Chair Dances (2006)
- Liz Lerman, Still Keeping The Audience On Its Toes | The Washington Post | November 2006
- Lerman Steps Forth with Ideas | The Washington Times | November 2006
- Liz Lerman: Looking Ahead, Looking Back | The Washington Post | October 2006
Ferocious Beauty: Genome (2006)
- Dancing with Physicists | Symmetry Magazine | August 2009
- MacArthur Foundation ‘genius’ Liz Lerman, dance company to spend 10 days in Bloomington, Indy | Indiana University | January 2009
- Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Performance- Ferocious Beauty: Genome | Lafayette College | November 2008
- “Ferocious Beauty” Leads to Innovative Dance, In-Depth Discussions | Indiana University | November 2008
- Can Dance and Science Merge Artistically in Performance? | Dance Magazine | April 2008
- Campus Stage Becomes Provocative Chem Lab | NJ.com | April 2008
- Dance and Genetics: Unlikely Combo Makes a Great Show | State Press | October 2007
- Lerman’s Ferocious Beauty Untangling the Threads of Life | The Washington Post | April 2007
- Putting the DNA into Dance | Duke Today | September 2006
- Multimedia dance to DNA / ‘Ferocious Beauty’ to delve into history, politics of genetics | SF Gate | April 2006
- Connecting Bodies, Apples, and DNA Through Dance | The New York Times | February 2006
- Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Connects Science and Dance | The Wesleyan Argus | February 2006
- Ferocious Beauty: Genome | Dance Magazine | February 2006
- The Making of “Ferocious Beauty: Genome” Kicks off Dance Residency at the CFA | Wesleyan | October 2005
Small Dances About Big Ideas (2005)
- Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Small Dances About Big Ideas | Circo Zero | May 2009
- The Artist as Educator; The Educator as Activist | The Covenant Foundation | April 2009
- Leaping Beyond the Headlines: Dance about Genocide, Compassion Comes to JCC of San Francisco | The Jewish News of Northern California | April 2009
- Dance Review: Dance Against Atrocity | The Art Fuse | November 2005
- Dancing with an Ethical Agenda | The Harvard Crimson | November 2005
The Hallelujah Project (1998-2002)
- Liz Lerman’s ‘Hallelujah’ Chorus | The Washington Post | August 2002
- Liz Lerman, Exalting the Ordinary | The Washington Post | August 2002
- The Eleven Days of Liz Lerman | The Washington Post | August 2002
- “Hallelujah” Creates Dance in Experience | The Michigan Daily | October 2001
- Hallelujah | LA Weekly | February 2001
- Hallelujah Project: In Praise of Paradise Lost and Found | David Scobey | 2001
- Dance That Helps Every Able Body Get Into the Act | The New York Times | December 1999
- On The Hallelujah Trail with Liz Lerman | The Washington Post | June 1998
Other choreographic works
- Liz Lerman: Still Dancing, Still Crossing | July 2012
- Moving Heaven and Earth | The Washington Post | May 2007
- Liz Lerman’s Invitation to the Dance | C-Ville | May 2006
- “Oh, Brad. They’re Dancing in the Galleries!” | Dance View DC | October 2003
- 1990s Shipyard Project Struck a Community Nerve | Sea Coast News | October 2003
- ‘Mad Dancers’: Spiritual Journey with a Light Step | The Washington Post | May 2003
- From Auto Parts to Kids’ Smiles | The Washington Post | September 2000
- Lerman’s ‘Fifty’: It All Adds Up | The Washington Post | June 2000
- Dance Exchange Joins Garde Arts | Hartford Courant | April 1998
- Liz Lerman: You’re Never Too Bold | The Washington Post | June 1997
- Liz Lerman: The Power of Prayer | The Washington Post | June 1997
- Liz Lerman’s 20 Year Cheer | The Washington Post | November 1996
- Divinely Inspired Dance | The Washington Post | October 1995
- Liz Lerman, Growing By Leaps and Bounds | The Washington Post | June 1995
- Liz Lerman’s Home Run | The Washington Post | June 1995
- Turning Spectators into Performers | The Washington Post | June 1994
- Lerman’s Question | The Washington Post | November 1991
- Liz Lerman’s Barns Dance | The Washington Post | May 1991
- Liz Lerman | The Washington Post | October 1987
- The Dance: Liz Lerman | The New York Times | October 1987
- Liz Lerman, Democrat of Dance | The Washington Post | April 1987
- Liz Lerman Dance Celebrates Statue of Liberty Centennial | Jewish Women’s Archive | July 1986
- Steps of Russia | The Washington Post | June 1985
- ‘Russia’ Inspiration | The Washington Post | June 1985
- Liz Lerman | The Washington Post | March 1985
- Liz Lerman | The Washington Post | October 1984
- Liz Lerman’s Political Moves | The Washington post | October 1984
- Portrait of Ives | The Washington Post | July 1984
- Liz Lerman: Exploring E.Hopper | The Washington Post | May 1984
- Liz Lerman | The Washington Post | March 1983
- Liz Lerman’s Giant Step | The Washington Post | May 1981
- Liz Lerman | The Washington Post | October 1978
