Episode 104: The Critical Response Process with Liz Lerman & John Borstel

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Rachel speaks to dancer, choreographer, and teacher Liz Lerman about the Critical Response Process (CRP), a philosophy and method for providing creative feedback in and out of the classroom, as well as John Borstel, co-writer and editor of Liz’s Critique is Creative: The Critical Response Process in Theory and Action. They discuss the need for alternative feedback structures in their lives, the origins of CRP, their art school critiques, complementary skill sets, and the steps of this process.

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Liz Lerman in rehearsal with performers at Jacob’s Pillow. © Jamie Kraus, Jacob’s Pillow

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John Borstel teaching CRP in 2016. © Alonso Parra

Selected Work

• Critique Is Creative: The Critical Response Process in Theory & Practice (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), Liz Lerman and John Borstel

• Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer (Wesleyan University Press, 2011), Liz Lerman

• Liz Lerman's Critical Response Process (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, 2003), Liz Lerman and John Borstel

Also Referenced

• Erika Meitner

• Jason Schneiderman

• Washington Post

• Cristóbal Martínez

• Postcommodity

• Colorado Dance Festival

• Alternative Routes

• New York Theater Workshop

• Yale University

• Iowa Writers Workshop

• Doulas of North America

• Erika R. Moore

• Isaac Gomez

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