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Liz Lerman Dance Exchange conducts residencies throughout the United States and abroad. These residencies bring community groups together to experience the expressive power of dance and explore important issues through movement and story. Residencies are custom-designed in collaboration with local presenters.

Residencies usually include three components:
Public Performances: Formal concerts featuring award winning choreography in solo, ensemble, full company and community participation dances. Informal performances in varied settings include discussion and audience participation, exploring an array of subjects from the politics of art to the choreographic process as a window on personal identity.

Community Workshops: Workshop participants use dance and story to stretch the mind and body to share ideas, observations, and personal experiences. Classes are tailored to a wide variety of groups in such settings as schools, senior centers, hospitals, healthcare facilities, places of worship, prisons, community centers, and coporate and government offices.

Professional Training: Teachers, healthcare providers, community workers, dance professionals, and other artists apply the tools of storytelling, choreography and artistic process to their community
and creative needs.

Liz Lerman Dance Exchange can collaborate on a variety of events involving extensive community participation:

Site-Specific Performances, animate unusual spaces indoors and out, examining how individuals, institutions, and the public have interacted with these spaces over time.

Community-Wide Participatory Events develop new forms of expression to explore issues of concern, including violence, education, aging, healthcare, and understanding of community history.



Liz Lerman Dance Exchange residencies can be the vehicle for partnerships within local communities. The Dance Exchange has facilitated projects linking such partners as: a dance performance space and a prison; a civic center and a senior center; a dance festival and a hospital; a local community center, a local arts council, and a textile mill.

For information about engaging Liz Lerman Dance Exchange for performance and residency activity in your community, contact Jane Hirshberg at 301-270-6700, ext. 12 or janeh@danceexchange.org

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The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Toolbox is designed for anyone seeking concrete techniques for choreography, community building, and constructive human interaction. That includes artists, educators, students, social service professionals, and practically anyone seeking creative ways to do their work.

This online Toolbox is an ongoing, expanding effort to share the body of knowledge developed by Liz Lerman Dance Exchange since its beginnings in 1976. It includes practice (how to do things), theory (why they work and what they mean) and history (where they came from and what happened when we did them).

To visit the Toolbox, please click here