Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, teacher, and speaker. She has spent the past four decades making her artistic research personal, funny, intellectually vivid, and up to the minute. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to everyone from shipbuilders to physicists, construction workers to ballerinas, resulting in both research and experiences that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others.

On a hot August day, I took a bed-bug-ridden bus for twenty hours from Bangkok to be unceremoniously dumped at a market stop in your biggest city for a short stint as an unpaid intern. Thank you for helping me find fitness and health, and other people who value those things and e.