Liz Lerman

Liz Lerman
Born 1947
Nationality American
Known for choreographer
Movement Dance Exchange
Awards MacArthur Fellows Program

Liz Lerman (born 1947) is an American choreographer and founder of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.[1][2][3]

The company has appeared at the National Cathedral,[4] Kennedy Center Opera House,[5] and Millennium Stage,[6] Lansburgh Theater,[7] Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,[8][9] Harvard University,[10] and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.[11][12]

Career

In July 2011, Lerman passed the leadership of her company to Cassie Meador,[13] and the company is now called simply Dance Exchange.[14] [15]

That fall, Lerman spent the semester at Harvard as a Visiting Lecturer.[16] Wesleyan University Press also published Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer, Lerman's collection of essays, in 2011. [17]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ http://www.danceexchange.org/whoweare.html#staffandco
  2. ↑ http://www.danceexchange.org/whoweare.html
  3. ↑ "Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.(Lansburgh Theater, Washington DC)". The Kenyon Review. January 1, 2006.
  4. ↑ http://www.nationalcathedral.org/staff/PE-49EKF-58001D.shtml
  5. ↑ Jackson, George (December 8, 1993). "Liz Lerman, on the move".
  6. ↑ http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=lizlerdanc
  7. ↑ http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=2098
  8. ↑ http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=2098
  9. ↑ Traiger, Lisa (October 27, 2006). "Liz Lerman: Looking Ahead, Looking Back".
  10. ↑ http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1639
  11. ↑ "Liz Lerman Dance Exchange: Ferocious Beauty: Genome". Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
  12. ↑ http://mcachicago.org/performances/now/all/2011/741
  13. ↑ http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/performance-and-dance/2011/09/01/life-after-lerman-the-dance-exchange-ponders-a-future-without-its-founder/
  14. ↑ Sarah Kaufman (January 24, 2011). "Liz Lerman set to move on from her namesake dance company". The Washington Post.
  15. ↑ Mary Carole McCauley (January 24, 2011). "Liz Lerman to leave dance troupe in July". The Baltimore Sun.
  16. ↑ Corydon Ireland (December 15, 2011). "Adding art to academics". Harvard Crimson.
  17. ↑ Liz Lerman. "About Liz Lerman".
  18. ↑ United States Artists Official Website

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