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  • Hiking the Horizontal

  • Field Notes from a Choreographer
  • By: Liz Lerman
  • Narrated by: Liz Lerman
  • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins

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Publisher's Summary

The unique career of choreographer Liz Lerman has taken her from theater stages to shipyards and from synagogues to science labs. In this wide-ranging collection of essays and articles, she reflects on her lifelong exploration of dance as a vehicle for human insight and understanding of the world around us. 

Lerman has been described by the Washington Post as "the source of an epochal revolution in the scope and purposes of dance art". Here, she combines broad outlooks on culture and society with practical applications and accessible stories. Her expansive scope encompasses the craft, structure, and inspiration that bring theatrical works to life as well as the applications of art in fields as diverse as faith, aging, particle physics, and human rights law. Offering listeners a gentle manifesto describing methods that bring a horizontal focus to bear on a hierarchical world, this is the perfect book for anyone curious about the possible role for art in politics, science, community, motherhood, and the media.

©2014 Wesleyan University Press (P)2021 Wesleyan University Press

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