Liz Lerman
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Liz Lerman is an American choreographer and founder of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.
They have appeared at the National Cathedral, Kennedy Center Opera House, and Millennium Stage, Lansburgh Theater, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
,and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
.
She plans to retire in July 2011.
They have appeared at the National Cathedral, Kennedy Center Opera House, and Millennium Stage, Lansburgh Theater, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is a performing arts complex on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. The facility houses six performance venues; the UM School of Music; and the UM School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. It also houses the Michelle Smith...
,and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary art venues...
.
She plans to retire in July 2011.
Awards
- 2002 MacArthur Fellows ProgramMacArthur Fellows ProgramThe MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T...
- American Choreographer Award
- American Jewish Congress "Golda" Award
- 1988 Washingtonian of the Year, by Washingtonian magazine
External links
- Dance Exchange website
- "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