Episode 63: A Conversation with Liz Lerman

<h2>Liz Lerman</h2><p>In chapter one of our conversation with Liz Lerman we'll talk about her early years, her career as a heretic, the critical response process, the Heisenberg Uncertainty, the power of the horizontal, and how dance can make the world a better place.&nbsp;</p><h2>BIO</h2><p>Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, teacher, and speaker. She has spent the past four decades making her artistic research personal, funny, intellectually vivid, and up to the minute. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to everyone from shipbuilders to physicists, construction workers to ballerinas, resulting in both research and experiences that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others.</p><p>Called by the Washington Post “the source of an epochal revolution in the scope and purposes of dance art,”<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Lerman#cite_note-Washington_Post-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[4]</a>&nbsp;she and her dancers have collaborated with shipbuilders, physicists, construction workers, and cancer researchers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Lerman#cite_note-Lerman,_Liz._2014-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[5]</a>&nbsp;In 2002 she won the MacArthur Genius Grant;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Lerman#cite_note-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[6]</a>&nbsp;in 2009, the Jack P. Blaney Award in Dialogue acknowledged her outstanding leadership, creativity, and dedication to melding dialogue with dance;[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>citation needed</em></a>]&nbsp;and the 2017 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Lerman#cite_note-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[7]</a></p><p>She founded the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and led the company's multi-generational ensemble until July 2011, when Lerman passed the leadership of her company to Cassie Meador;<a href="https://en.wikipedi