April 28, 2017

Ashamu Dance Studio

Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process: A Workshop with Dance Exchange’s Matthew Cumbie

The Critical Response Process (CRP) is a widely-recognized feedback method based on the principle that the best possible outcome from a response session is for the maker to want to go back to work.

Devised by choreographer Liz Lerman, it originated at the Dance Exchange around 1990 and has won acceptance around the world as a leading feedback method, one that assures meaningful critique as a constructive dimension of the creative process. Through a four-step facilitated dialogue, CRP gives tools both to people who are making work and people who are responding to that work. In use for over twenty years, CRP has been embraced by artmakers, educators, scientists, and administrators at theater companies, dance departments, orchestras, science centers, museums and more, and has proven valuable for all kinds of creative endeavors, work situations, and collaborative relationships within and beyond the arts.