2011–12 PLAY LAB SERIES

Dance: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Liz Lerman

Apr 27–29, 2012

For more than 30 years, dance pioneers Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Liz Lerman have been colleagues in the continuing struggle for human rights and democratic practice in and through the arts. Each is an ordinary woman who has done extraordinary things to create art that matters, using artistic skills to challenge bias in her own community and expand society’s sense of moral purpose and creative possibility. Now they embark upon their first collaboration, a multi-faceted partnership to explore important questions about civil rights, poverty and economic inequality, aging and feminism in today’s United States. Jawole and Liz will use their artistic rigor, distinctive creative processes, friendship and humor to imaginatively address these issues across the country. CENTERSTAGE hosts their first creative residency in Baltimore.