Acknowledgments ix * The Critical Response Process xi * Introduction * Opening Circles, Liz Lerman 2 * Introduction 4 * Section I: The Practice * Chapter 1: Framing Feedback * Framing Feedback 13 * From Your Beginnings, Liz Lerman 15 * Living Feedback: A Short Memoir of Critique Experiences, John Borstel 17 * The Broadest Possible Interpretation of Creativity, Mark Callahan 24 * Reimagining Feedback, Liz Lerman 30 * Chapter 2: Roles & Steps * Roles & Steps 38 * Practice, Practice, Liz Lerman 40 * The Critical Response Process in Brief 43 * The Roles 47 * Step One 54 * Step Two 70 * Step Three 87 * Step Four 108 * Section II: Applications * Authors' Note 121 * Chapter 3: Learning & Teaching * Learning & Teaching 123 * Interrupting Authority, Liz Lerman 132 * Rigorous Nurture: The Critical Response Process and Adolescents, Elizabeth Johnson Levine 134 * Engaging the Vital Power of Your Peers: CRP in Jazz Education, Carlos Lopez-Real 150 * Developing the Artistic Voice, Gerda van Zelm 155 * If the Artist Asks, It's Our Job to Answer: CRP in the College Dance Composition Studio, Gesel Mason 162 * Unleashing Autonomy, Cultivating Leadership: CRP in Advanced Music Education, Sean Riley 170 * An Adaptation of CRP for Peer Review in Small Seminar Courses in STEM, Lekelia Jenkins 180 * Toward a CRP Pedagogy, Kathryn Prince 186 * You Are the Teacher, Liz Lerman 199 * Chapter 4: Artistry & Institutions * Artistry & Institutions 207 * Critiquing and Caring, Liz Lerman 214 * Mentoring and Facilitating in the Visual Arts: CRP at Women's Art Resources of Minnesota, Jill Waterhouse 217 * Process and Ethos: CRP for New Operas at American Lyric Theater, Lawrence Edelson 226 * An Accommodating Blueprint: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on CRP, Rebekah West 230 * Getting Where We Need To Be: CRP in Organization, Collaboration, and Production at Dance & Bmore, CJay Philip 238 * CRP on Yourself, Liz Lerman 247 * Chapter 5: Communities & Change * Communities & Change 251 * CRP in a Time of Reckoning, Liz Lerman 258 * Out of the Shadow Side of Niceness: CRP in a Mennonite Seminary Worship Lab, Rachel Miller Jacobs 261 * Learning a City, Resisting Erasure: CRP in Community and Collaborative Process, Bimbola Akinbola and Cassie Meador 266 * Advancing Equity: CRP at Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario, Charles C. Smith, Kevin A. Ormsby, and Shula Strassfeld 278 * Human Works in Progress: CRP and Personal Change, Phil Stoesz 289 * Civic Dramaturgy: Undoing Racism Through Critical Response Process, Isaac Gómez 295 * Critical Response Process: Aesthetics of Time, Cristóbal Martínez 304 * Closing Ritual, Liz Lerman 322 * Author and Contributor Biographies 327.