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What's happening in the DC dance world?
Posted Jul 19, 2011 by Imagine Dance
Liz Lerman, Founding Artistic Director of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, hands over leadership to company member and choreographer Cassie Meador.
Liz Lerman has been recognized as a central figure in the DC dance world as both a choreographer and an innovative thinker. A new generation of leadership will be taking the helm of her internationally renowned company as Lerman is enthusiastically passing the artistic directorship to company member and choreographer Cassie Meador. Meador, with a core group of resident artists will take the Dance Exchange into its future. Liz Lerman will leave the company to pursue a new realm of choreographic and public intellectual endeavors while sustaining a relationship with the Dance Exchange through select performance, community, and online projects.
This spring, the Dance Exchange will embark on a major fundraising campaign to sustain the ongoing work of both the Dance Exchange and Lerman, to support new choreographic visions, to increase activity in the Dance Exchange studios, and to support the joint ventures between the company and Lerman.
www.danceexchange.org
Dance Place, one of the premiere venues for dance in DC, has been awarded much deserved funding to modernize and expand their current campus.
Dance Place is one of the few venues in DC that actually commission and present dance artists over a long period of time. They do important work in developing the field of dance in DC, and, in their 30th anniversary year, this funding for facilities is much-needed and well-deserved