Liz Lerman Llc

Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, teacher, and speaker, and the recipient of honors including a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2002 MacArthur “Genius Grant” and a 2017 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to everyone from shipbuilders to physicists, construction workers to ballerinas, resulting in both research and experiences that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others. Liz is the author of several books including Teaching Dance to Senior Adults, Hiking the Horizontal, and most recently, co-authoring Critique is Creative with John Borstel, which addresses the Critical Response Process: a communication system for giving and receiving feedback that she invented decades ago. She is currently working on a new book, with working title “An Insomniac’s Guide for a World in Constant Motion.” Liz is currently Institute Professor at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University, where she is also Faculty Affiliate in Jewish Studies and Senior Global Futures Scientist (Global Futures Scientists and Scholars). A former fellow of the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Liz recently completed a senior fellowship at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and is a current fellow at the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Arizona State University. Liz has spent the past four decades making her artistic research personal, funny, intellectually vivid, and up to the minute. Her choreography has examined everything from her days as a go-go dancer in 1974 to investigating the matters of our origins by putting dancers in the tunnels of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. She founded Dance Exchange in 1976 and handed over leadership in 2011. You can learn more about her work at lizlerman.com