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The Choreography of Choreogprahy with Liz Lerman at The Dance Complex
*Online sales for this event will close on Sunday, June 28th at 2pm. If you would like to purchase tickets after this time, you can do so at The Dance Complex on the day of the event (Sunday, 6/28) beginning at 6:30pm when the Box Office opens. Tickets will be sold on a first come first serve basis.*
The Choreography of Choreography with Liz Lerman
and Performance by Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion
Sunday, June 28th, 7:00p
The evening will include a lecture by MacArthur "Genius" Award recipient Liz Lerman at The Dance Complex. The audience will get an inside look at Lerman's work, highlighting her unique and dimensional research methods that have engaged scientists, shipyard workers, lawyers and multiple versions of communities, alongside professional dancers, in the making of art and performance for the last forty years.
The Dance Complex's Executive Director Peter DiMuro, whose company will perform, is host. Sweets will follow.
The event is a benefit for The Dance Complex's Dance Building Building Dance campaign. Limited seating available.
Pricing:
$45 General Admission
$90 VIP (includes pre-reception with Ms. Lerman)
$25 Boston Dance Alliance
(Ms. Lerman will teach a daylong workshop on Monday, June 29th at The Dance Complex. Info and registration at dancecomplex.org)
For underwriting & sponsorship opportunities, please contact: Mary McCarthy at, theboard@dancecomplex.org
Program, Venue & Personnel subject to change
Artist Biographies:
Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker. From a piece about her days as a go-go dancer in 1974 to a recent investigation of origins that included putting dancers in the tunnels of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, 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 various publics from shipbuilders to physicists, construction workers to ballerinas, resulting in both research and outcomes that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others.
She founded Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and cultivated the company's unique multi-generational ensemble into a leading force in contemporary dance. Now she is pursuing new projects with fresh partnerships, including a recent semester at Harvard University as an artist-in-residence; initiating the National Civil War Project which pairs theaters and universities to create new work and new research related to our civil war; the new work Healing Wars, an investigation of the impact of war on medicine (2014). Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer, Liz's collection of essays was published by Wesleyan University Press.
Liz has been the recipient of numerous honors, including a 2002 MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship, a 2011 United States Artists Ford Fellowship in Dance, and the 2014 Dance/USA Honor Award. Her work has been commissioned by Harvard Law School, Lincoln Center, the American Dance Festival and the Kennedy Center, among many others.
Peter DiMuro became the Executive Director of The Dance Complex in 2013, returning to Boston after touring, teaching and making dances internationally for 30 years, fifteen of which occurring while as a company member, and later Artistic Director, of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. He continues to create, advocate and educate through his artistic umbrella, Peter DiMuro / Public Displays of Motion. His work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Boston Center for the Arts, a 2015 Boston Dance Alliance Retreat and Rehearsal Fellowship and has been commissioned nationally and abroad.
The Dance Complex is a central hub of dance locally, regionally and nationally. We enable the creation, study and performance of dance. We sustain artists, audiences and the community through programs that connect movement and ideas. We celebrate curiosity and wonder for all in regards to dance.
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