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.