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Join us for an inspiring conversation with acclaimed choreographer and disabled artist Jerron Herman, an artist compelled to create images of freedom.

Jerron has premiered works at Danspace Project, PSNY, and The Whitney Museum. Jerron has activated museums like The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum and Guggenheim with daring interdisciplinary installations. Jerron is also the choreographer and co-director of Sensorium Ex, a new opera composed by Paola Prestini with libretto by Brenda Shaugnessey. His writings have been published in the U.S. and abroad including Art Papers and his play, 3 Bodies, for Theater Magazine in 2022. He is a part of INTERIM, a boutique centering joy for disabled artists helmed by Candace Feldman that includes Molly Joyce and Christopher Unpezverde Nuñez. Other accolades include a 2024 USA Fellowship, 2023 Visiting Artist for FokusTanz #10 Kampnagel, 2023-24 Fellowship at NYU/Center for Ballet and the Arts, 2022 Residency at the European Ceramics Work Centre, 2021 Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2021 Jerome Hill Fellowship in Dance from the Jerome Foundation, 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship.

Hosted by the Performance Studies Obermann Working Group. Co-sponsored by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and the Department of Dance. Onsite ALS interpretation by Hands Up Communications.