WORKS

Temporary Body, premiered at Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum as part of An Atlas of Es Devlin solo exhibition (New York; April 2024). Tours: Cantor Arts Center (Stanford; 2026)

LAX premiered at Battery Dance Festival, commissioned by Stephen Petronio Company’s Bloodlines (future) Program (New York; July 2023); Lax.vid at LOMAA (Ontario; Oct 2023)
Tours: Kunstverein-Hannover (Germany; 2026), Fralin Museum at UVA (Charlottesville; 2025), Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick; 2024), Guggenheim Museum (New York; 2023), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York; 2023), ICA Philadelphia (Philadelphia; 2023), Park Avenue Armory (New York; 2023) Published article in ART PAPERS, (Summer 2023)

VITRUVIAN, premiered at Abrons Arts Center (New York; May 2022) 
Tours: Bryn Mawr College (2024), New Victory Theater (New York; 2024), ODC (San Francisco; 2023), BMA (Baltimore; 2023), Lincoln Center digital (New York; 2022)

Breaking and Entering, premiered at Danspace Project (New York; November 2019) Excerpt: Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts/The REACH Opening (Washington, D.C; 2019).

Many Ways to Raise a Fist (solo), presented first as a solo at The Whitney Museum of American Art to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the ADA (New York; July 2019).

Relative, premiered at Performance Space New York as part of i wanna be with you everywhere, a commission of their “No Series” (New York; April 2019).

PHYS. ED, premiered at Gibney Dance Center (New York; December 2018). WIP(s): Snug Harbor (New York) and Marlboro College (Marlboro).

SHORTS:

Chambers (2 minutes), premiered on JJTC’s Films.Dance (Online) in September 2021 featuring Ballet Vlaanderen’s Daniel Domenech. Choreographer | Audio Description writer | About body

Groanings (15 minutes), premiered at Danspace Project (New York) in December 2019 as part of ComeUnion - Movement Research Festival. Solo | Gospel Music | Blackness

Untitled Red (25 minutes) presented at Participant, Inc (New York) in October 2019. For Constantina Zavitsanos’ first solo exhibition, L&D Motel. Solo | cycles & waves | frequency

OTHER ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE

Choreographer, SENSORIUM EX, Composed by Paola Prestini, Common Senses Festival (Omaha), 2025
Guest Artist, Breath of the Beast by Stephen Petronio Company, NYU Skirball (New York), 2023
Dancer, Wired by Alice Sheppard, Premiered Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) 2022, The Shed (New York), 2022
Co-creator/Dancer, Left and Right, with Molly Joyce, National Sawdust (New York) 2021, DE SINGEL (Antwerp), 2022, CAP UCLA (Los Angeles), 2024
Model, Chromat FW2020 dir by Tourmaliine (New York) 2020
Dancer, Unfinished by Heidi Latsky, Dixon Place (New York) 2019
Facilitator, Distributed Web of Care by Taeyoon Choi, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) 2019
Model, FFORA (New York) 2019
Model, The Jewelry Library (New York) 2018
Model, Nike x Pensole (Beaverton & New York) 2017
Dancer, TRIPTYCH by Heidi Latsky, Montclair State University (Montclair) 2016

AWARDS/HONORS

Helen Stambler Neuberger AIR, National Dance Institute, 2026
AIR, Movement Research, 2025-2026 (2025 NYSCA Grantee)
Fellow, United States Artists, 2024
Fellow, NYU/Center for Ballet and the Arts, 2023-2024
Pathways Pioneer Award, AACPDM, 2022
Artist/Scholar in Residence, Georgetown University, Spring 2022
AIR, Abrons Arts Center, 2021-2022
Cover Story, Dance Magazine, 2021
Jerome Hill Artist Award, Jerome Foundation, 2021
Grants to Artists Award, Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2021
Dance and Social Justice Fellowship, Dance/NYC, 2020
Art + Activist Community Fund, artEquity, 2020
Disability Futures Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Ford Foundation, 2020

RESIDENCIES

Real Dance Festival, Hannover, Germany, 2026
Lazy Listeners Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2025
Jacob’s Pillow, 2025
University of Virginia, 2025
University of Iowa, 2024
Bryn Mawr College, 2024
FokusTanz No.10, Kampnagel, Germany, 2024
ODC/State of Play Festival, 2024
European Ceramics Work Center x Watershed, 2022
PETRONIO Award, Petronio Residency Center, 2021
Summer Residency, Performance Space New York, 2019
Art & Disability Cohort, Art Beyond Sight, 2019
PASS Artist, Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Gardens, 2018

CURATION

Summer for the City, Lincoln Center: zavé martohardjono, Christopher unpezverde Nuñez, Tamisha Guy, David Rubenstein Atrium (New York; 2026)

Discourse: Disabled Artists at The Joyce, The Joyce Theater (New York), 2021

Access Check 2.0: Mapping Accessibility, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation (New York), 2019-2020

PUBLICATIONS

“Carolyn Lazard”, MoMA Artist Intro. Edited by Alex Halberstadt. MoMA. https://www.moma.org/artists/133042-carolyn-lazard, March 2026

3 Bodies and “Embody 3 Bodies”, Theater Magazine, Volume 52, Number 2. Edited by Tom Sellar and Madeline Charne. Yale University Press, May/June 2022.

“Definition: A Praxis”, Disability Futures in the Arts. Edited by Kenny Fries. Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, https://wordgathering.com/vol14/issue4/disability-futures/herman/, December 2020

“The Misgivings of Capacity”, Defining ‘Small-Budget’ Dance Makers in a Changing Dance Ecology. Edited by Dance/NYC, 2020. p70-73

“Choreographing Disability Justice”, Voices from the Field: Dance/USA Artist Fellows in Practice and Community. Edited by Suzanne Callahan and Lily Kharrazi. Dance/USA, 2020. p.25-30

“AMERICAN PRACTITIONER”, The Voices of Many. Edited by Shades of Noir UK, 2020.

Herman, Jerron. Commentary - Dance as art therapy for cerebral palsy (386). Lopez-Ortiz C, Gaebler-Spira DJ, McKeeman SN, McNish RN, Green D. Dance and rehabilitation in cerebral palsy: a systematic search and review. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 2019; 61: 393–8.  

“On Stewardship”, Distributed Web of Care. Edited By Taeyoon Choi. https://distributedweb.care/posts/on-stewardship, May, 24, 2019.

AFFILIATIONS

DLNY, Resident Director - Disability-led Lab, 2024-
NEFA NDP, Advisor, 2021-2025
Dance/USA, Trustee & Vice Chair, 2017-2023

CONSULTANCY

Residency Director, Disabled-led Lab, Dance Lab New York, 2023-Disability/Access Consultant; NEA ArtsHere Program, NXTHVN, 2024-2025
Visiting Lecturer, GSAPP Columbia University, 2024

EDUCATION

The King’s College, BA in Media, Culture, and the Arts, 2013