WISH LIST $100: 1 high school workshop on taking risks and realizing dreams; $1000: collaboration with a community group on a topic like genocide; $10,000: "sponsor-a-dancer" for a quarter term of salary and health benefits

Liz Lerman Dance Exchange is in the business of challenging assumptions, and it knows the business well. A pioneer in collaborations that cross different domains, the company's recent work, "Ferocious Beauty: Genome," won critical acclaim in both art and science journals. One of the first companies to foster an intergenerational approach to dance--performers range in age from 25 to 74—and to use dancers of different sizes and physical capabilities—slim and large, in their wheelchairs, on their hands, on their feet--Liz Lerman Dance Exchange has, for thirty-one years, offered contemporary dance to local, national, and international audiences. The company performs anywhere it can move: at the Kennedy Center and at Wolf Trap; in sculpture gardens, at street festivals, in shipyards; at major universities including Wesleyan, Harvard, and Brown; and at more than twenty-five DC area schools. Exploring art, science, personal identity, faith and other subjects that link the ordinary with the profound, the company wants dance and creativity to unite communities and lead to personal insight. The New York Times has praised it for its “visionary work of extraordinary eloquence,” and the Washington Post says it is “the source of epochal revolution in the scope and purposes of dance.” Company founder Liz Lerman has been honored with a MacArthur genius award, and Liz Lerman Dance Exchange was named one of the nation’s Top 100 charities by Worth magazine. Catalogue donors: why not add this one to your repertory?

Jane Hirshberg, Managing Director & CEO 7117 Maple Avenue Takoma Park, MD 20912 301.270.6700 Ext. 12 www.danceexchange.org