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Critique Is Creative

Winner of Silver Nautilus for Creativity & Innovation, given by Nautilus Book Award, 2023

Devised by choreographer Liz Lerman in 1990, Critical Response Process® (CRP) is an internationally recognized method for giving and getting feedback on creative works in progress. In this first in-depth study of CRP, Lerman and her long-term collaborator John Borstel describe in detail the four-step process, its origins and principles. The book also includes essays on CRP from a wide range of contributors. With insight, ingenuity, and the occasional challenge, these practitioners shed light on the applications and variations of CRP in the contexts of art, education, and community life. Critique Is Creative examines the challenges we face in an era of reckoning and how CRP can aid in change-making of various kinds.

With contributions from:
Bimbola Akinbola, Mark Callahan, Lawrence Edelson, Isaac Gómez, Rachel Miller Jacobs, Lekelia Jenkins, Elizabeth Johnson Levine, Carlos Lopez-Real, Cristóbal Martínez, Gesel Mason, Cassie Meador, Kevin Ormsby, CJay Philip, Kathryn Prince, Sean Riley, Charles C. Smith, Shula Strassfeld, Phil Stoesz, Gerda van Zelm, Jill Waterhouse, Rebekah West

Liz Lerman, John Borstel

Liz Lerman is a choreographer, writer, educator and speaker, and the recipient of honors including a 2002 MacArthur Genius Grant fellowship and a 2017 Jacob's Pillow Dance Award. She founded Dance Exchange in 1976 and led it until 2011. Her recent dance/theater works, Healing Wars and Wicked Bodies have been presented at major US performing arts venues. Books include, Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer and Critique is Creative: The Critical Response Process in Theory and Action, both published by Wesleyan University.

Wesleyan University Press