the inexhaustible Mr. Herman
-NY TIMES
JERRON HERMAN
Jerron Herman is a disabled dancer and writer who creates works to facilitate welcoming. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees at Dance/USA and regularly writes on art and culture. His play, 3 Bodies, was published in Theater Magazine June 2022 issue. Jerron also curated the series "Access Check 2.0" at the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation (2019-2020) and "Discourse: Disabled Artists at the Joyce" for The Joyce Theater (2021). His awards include a 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship, made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon and Ford Foundations respectively; the Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship from the Jerome Foundation, both in 2021.
VITRUVIAN ON TOUR NOW
Hailed by the Brooklyn Rail as “a triumph of intention and reinvention, centering disability and celebrating Herman’s rebirth as his own divine form”, VITRUVIAN shares an allegorical tale of the life cycle of the Vitruvian man as he traverses multiple hemispheres, now in the embodiment of a Disabled Black man. Based on Da Vinci's famous sketch, the piece explores the ways natural phenomena and history enter and live in the body. VITRUVIAN has been featured on NY1 and CBS New York as a show to see. The full evening was commissioned by Abrons Arts Center and developed during artistic and scholastic residencies at the Petronio Residency Center and Georgetown University. Other presentations have included a site specific interpretation at Governor's Island and virtual showings for the Passport Program at Lincoln Center as well as a month-long screening season at Abrons Arts Center. VITRUVIAN was archived into the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the New York Public Library of Performing Arts following its premiere.
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Artist Images PC: Adrian Court
Performance Images PC: Maria Baranova