Liz Lerman
| Liz Lerman | |
|---|---|
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| 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]
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Career
Liz Lerman joined the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. January 2016 in a unique position as Institute Professor to lead programs and courses that span disciplines across ASU. [13]
In July 2011, Lerman passed the leadership of her company to Cassie Meador,[14] and the company is now called simply Dance Exchange.[15] [16]
That fall, Lerman spent the semester at Harvard as a Visiting Lecturer.[17] Wesleyan University Press also published Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer, Lerman's collection of essays, in 2011.[18]
Awards
- 2014 Dance/USA Honor Award
- 2011 United States Artists Fellow [19]
- 2002 MacArthur Fellows Program
- American Choreographer Award
- American Jewish Congress "Golda" Award
- 1988 Washingtonian of the Year, by Washingtonian magazine
References
- ↑ http://www.danceexchange.org/whoweare.html#staffandco
- ↑ http://www.danceexchange.org/whoweare.html
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- ↑ http://www.nationalcathedral.org/staff/PE-49EKF-58001D.shtml
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- ↑ http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=lizlerdanc
- ↑ http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=2098
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- ↑ http://mcachicago.org/performances/now/all/2011/741
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- ↑ http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/performance-and-dance/2011/09/01/life-after-lerman-the-dance-exchange-ponders-a-future-without-its-founder/
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- ↑ United States Artists Official Website
External links
- Liz Lerman website
- Dance Exchange website
- Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Archives - Special Collections in Performing Arts, University of Maryland
- "Toward a Process for Critical Response", Community Arts Network
- "Assessing the future of modern dance, a fragile American art form", Washington Post, Sarah Kaufman, April 4, 2010
- Archive film of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange performing Hallelujah: In Praise of Fertile Fields in 2000 at Jacob's Pillow
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