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

^ 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.
^ Seibert, Brian (January 23, 2015). "From a fount of grief, endless invention". The New York Times. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
^ Austin-Edwards, A. Nia (October 20, 2014). "The Dance Enthusiast meets 2014 Bessie Award nominee Liz Gerring". The Dance Enthusiast.
^ "2015 Jacob Pillow's Dance Award goes to artist Liz Gerring" (PDF). April 20, 2015.

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