An introduction to Critical Response Process (CRP) led by its developer, Liz Lerman. She will be joined by her collaborator Paloma McGregor. 

Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process (CRP) is a feedback system based on the principle that the best possible outcome of a response session is for the maker to want to go back to work. If you're laboring on a painting, designing a website, choreographing a dance, drafting a lecture, or composing a score, CRP helps you get fresh and useful feedback from peers, laypeople, and experts alike, while giving you the tools to do the same for others' work. Expect rigor and humor in equal measures as Lerman and McGregor introduce the Process and then dive right into concrete applications.

In use for over twenty years, CRP has deepened dialogue between makers and audiences, and enhanced learning between teachers and students. It has proven valuable for all kinds of creative endeavors, work situations, and collaborative relationships within and beyond the arts, from kindergartens to corporations.

There will be cake provided. Please let us know if you have any food intolerances or allergies.

Due to limited space capacity, the workshop is open to Harvard affiliates only with priority given to Harvard students.

REGISTER FOR CRP WORKSHOP 

Presented by the Office for the Arts (OFA) Dance Program, with additional support from the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA) made possible by the Johnson-Kulukundis Family President’s Fund for Arts at Harvard University.
 

About Liz Lerman

Liz Lerman is a choreographer, writer, and educator, and the recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2002 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Award. Current projects include building the Atlas of Creative Tools™, an online resource and archive, and Legacy Unboxed which includes site-specific research performance events called My Body is a Library. She founded and led the Dance Exchange from 1976 until 2011. Liz is the author of several books, including a forthcoming collection of essays, and currently an Institute Professor at Arizona State University and Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy.

About Paloma McGregor

Paloma McGregor is a Caribbean-born, New York-based dance-maker who makes Black work with Black folks for Black space. A former newspaper reporter and Bessie Award winner, McGregor brings a choreographer’s craft, journalist’s urgency, and community organizer’s framework in the service of big visions -- from the Bronx River to Christiansted, St. Croix. McGregor is co-founder and Artistic Director of Angela’s Pulse and founder of Dancing While Black. McGregor danced for six years with Urban Bush Women, and has collaborated with Liz Lerman for more than a decade as a performer and co-facilitator of designing Critical Response Process.

Accessibility

The Smith Campus Center is accessible for wheelchair and mobility device users. If you have questions about the accessibility provided or need to request accommodations, please contact dance@fas.harvard.edu or 617-496-0314.