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Liz Lerman's Jacob's Pillow Award is a Great Excuse to Revisit Videos of Her Work

Jacob’s Pillow just named Liz Lerman as recipient of this year’s Dance Award (which comes with a $25,000 cash prize). If you’ve never familiarized yourself with Lerman’s work, now’s a great time to get acquainted with her particular brand of community engagement, creative research and interdisciplinary practice. Although she left the company she founded, Dance […]

Liz Lerman’s Next Collaboration

Choreographer Liz Lerman has joined the faculty at Arizona State University in Tempe. As institute professor, she will direct cross-disciplinary programs through the new Ensemble Lab—a cooperative of artists and collaborators from diverse fields of study. A 2002 MacArthur Fellow, Lerman founded the Washington, DC–based Dance Exchange in 1976 and developed the groundbreaking feedback system […]