Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer
The unique career of choreographer Liz Lerman has taken her from theater stages to shipyards and from synagogues to science labs. In this wide-ranging collection of essays and articles, she reflects on her lifelong exploration of dance as a vehicle for human insight and understanding of the world around us.
Bio
Liz Lerman is a choreographer, educator and the recipient of numerous honors, including a 2002 MacArthur “Genius Grant” and 2017 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. She founded Dance Exchange in 1976 and cultivated its ensemble until 2011. Her production, "Healing Wars," toured the U.S. in 2014-15. Lerman is an Institute Professor in ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
Praise for this book
Lerman's concise text inspires and equips the reader with a host of new perspectives from which to tackle the making of artworks. … Lerman's ideas are novel, deep and challenging and, as such, require time to take in, analyze, and potentially adopt.
Lisa Jo Sagolla BackStage magazine
(R)eaders will be excited to evaluate and evolve their own practices. Anyone interested in making or teaching dance, regardless of where the dance takes place, who is dancing, or what it is about, will agree that this book matters.
Karen Schupp Journal of Dance Education
