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Presenter:
Elizabeth Johnson, Associate Artistic Director, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
ELIZABETH JOHNSON is a choreographer, dancer, community engager, and educator. In her decade with the Dance Exchange, Elizabeth has collaboratively created dances in communities from Eastport, Maine to Los Angeles, California; from Kyoto, Japan to Vancouver, Canada. She works with youth, seniors, religious communities, high school teachers, lawyers, scientists, and professional dancers – with a particular focus on teens and embodied learning. She is a yoga practitioner, runner and rock climber and her choreographic work is driven by athleticism, physiology, and the desire to connect movement with meaning. Recently, Elizabeth was the Dance Exchange artistic lead on the multi-media exhibit “Cells: The Universe Inside Us” at the Maryland Science Center which opened March 2009 and taught at Arizona State University as Faculty Associate for the Herberger College Department of Dance for spring semester 2009.
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