Liz Lerman

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Liz Lerman is a choreographer, writer, educator and speaker, and the recipient of honors including a 2002 MacArthur Genius Grant fellowship and a 2017 Jacob's Pillow Dance Award. She founded Dance Exchange in 1976 and led it until 2011. Her recent dance/theater works, Healing Wars and Wicked Bodies have been presented at major US performing arts venues. Books include, Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer and Critique is Creative: The Critical Response Process in Theory and Action, both published by Wesleyan University.