Imprints on a Landscape: The Mining Project Created by Martha Wittman, Imprints on a Landscape will be a multi-media work including movement, text and visual imagery that will involve the full professional company of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in creation and performance. Imprints will be the first in a series of "Senior Masters" projects to be developed by elder artists through Dance Exchange. The central theme of the work is the idea of how we endure- as individuals, as a culture, and as living entities in balance with our physical world. The work will be developed through research conducted by Martha Wittman, who will draw on her family's background in the coal mining culture of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and will also use historical materials from the mines, historical societies and museums of the area.

Near/Far/In/Out is a performance work driven and inspired by the dialogue among four generations of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)communities. Personal stories of one era intersect with those of another to reflect moments of history and individual change, generating a theatrical event that incorporates text, movement, metaphor and music. A team of Dance Exchange artists led by co-artistic director Peter DiMuro will be joined by members of the local GLBT communities at sites across the country to create and perform this innovative new work.

Rosetta's Birthday Wish Created by arts-integration specialist Margot Greenlee, Rosetta’s Birthday Wish, takes you through the land of Fire, Rain, and Snow…and your own imagination. Using the power of a birthday wish, the dancers of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange invite you to accompany young Rosetta on a journey as she collects adventures that are certain to inspire remarkable tales. Inspired by folktales from around the world, this interactive dance/theater work is rich with compelling visual images and evocative language and is easily adapted to meet the needs of audiences 3-93, with a strong emphasis on age-appropriate skills.

Gumdrops and Funny Uncles Peter DiMuro, Artistic Director, is creator of Gumdrops and Funny Uncles, a performance work that slices sideways through tradition, while creating a new “un”- Classic. With the addition of personal histories and the life experiences of local participants and company members, Gumdrops considers “family” anew, in multiple ways and with multiple staging possibilities. Gumdrops and Funny Uncles is story and music and dancing, passionate and purposeful, and as powerful as one of the classics.

Prayer as a Radical Act / Radical Action as Prayer Liz Lerman’s Prayer as a Radical Act will use both ancient and contemporary versions of our prayer practices as a stepping off point in a journey to illuminate what unifies, what divides. Using personal story, or by placing unusual events side by side, or by retrieving rituals from our past, or by listening to our young people recount their futures, Liz will build a dance/theater piece that lets our bodies be the healing landscape for some of our divisions, even divisions found by seeking a different God, or a different path to God.


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