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- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Austin-Edwards, A. Nia (October 20, 2014). "The Dance Enthusiast meets 2014 Bessie Award nominee Liz Gerring". The Dance Enthusiast.
- ↑ "Liz Gerring Dance Company at Jacob's Pillow Interactive". September 14, 2021.
