Liz Gerring

Liz Gerring is an American choreographer. She was trained at the Cornish Institute in Seattle, and received a B.F.A. from the Juilliard School. In 1998, she founded the Liz Gerring Dance Company, a contemporary dance ensemble.^[1] Gerring was commissioned by the Martha Graham Dance Company to create a new work for the Lamentation Variations project; other choreographers on the project were Kyle Abraham, Aszure Barton, Lar Lubovitch, and Yvonne Rainer.^[2] Gerring's work Glacier (2013) was nominated for a New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award,^[3] and in 2015 she was presented with the Jacob's Pillow Dance Award.^[4]

References

1. Macaulay, Alastair (April 1, 2015). "Review: Liz Gerring's 'Glacier' has its New York premiere". The New York Times. Ms. Gerring’s choreography here and there reminds me of a number of other choreographers, not least Merce Cunningham and the early postmodern dance experimentalists associated with Judson Church, but she doesn’t seem inhibited by their precedent. This is engagingly here-and-now dancing; and that kinesthetic effect is something rare, even intoxicating.
2. Seibert, Brian (January 23, 2015). "From a fount of grief, endless invention". The New York Times.
3. Austin-Edwards, A. Nia (October 20, 2014). "The Dance Enthusiast meets 2014 Bessie Award nominee Liz Gerring". The Dance Enthusiast.
4. "2015 Jacob Pillow's Dance Award goes to artist Liz Gerring" (PDF). April 20, 2015.

External links

• Liz Gerring Dance Company website