Liz Lerman - Blog

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Liz Lerman: There are ways in which writing, organizing and making a book are similar to organizing and making a piece, especially one of these longer pieces that I sometimes get myself into, in that there's enormous research, you're moving pieces around; one is editing; one is trying to figure out the difference between if I put this first or that first, how will people experience it.  So there's a lot about the art of it that has an analogy.  But the part's that really different is the fact that it's real and concrete and lives, and that people can hold it, and people can come up to me and say, "I read this part of it."  That is just so different from the experience of what happens to audiences.  Basically when they experience a dance, that's it.  Our experience is in that moment.  And they remember it, they may talk about it, they may come back and tell me about it-- all of that-- but it's nothing like having a book.