WORKS
VITRUVIAN premiered May 2022 at Abrons Arts Center (New York), culmination of AIR 2021-2022. Choreographer/Performer | the Vitruvian Man | Misunderstood ruins
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
Breaking and Entering (35 minutes) premiered at Danspace Project (New York) in November 2019; Excerpt: Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts (DC) as part of The REACH Opening in September 2019. Duet | Choreographer & Director | Exquisite Parallels with Molly Joyce
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
Many Ways to Raise a Fist (25 minutes), premiered at The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), July 2019. Solo | 29th Anniversary of the ADA | Legacies
Relative (35 minutes), premiered at Performance Space New York (New York) as part of i wanna be with you everywhere, a commission of their “No Series” in April 2019. Solo | Dance party realness
PHYS. ED (35 minutes), premiered at Gibney Dance Center (New York) as part of a shared evening curated by Alice Sheppard, December 2018. Work-in-progress: Snug Harbor (New York) and Marlboro College (Marlboro). Solo | P.E memories | Beauty.
OTHER ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE
Choreographer, SENSORIUM EX, Composed by Paola Prestini, Libretto by Brenda Shaughnessy, Premiering 2025
Dancer, Wired by Alice Sheppard, Premiered Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) 2022
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
Dancer, D.I.S.P.L.A.Y.E.D by Heidi Latsky, Baruch Performing Arts Center (New York) 2018
Model, Nike x Pensole (Beaverton & New York) 2017
Dancer, TRIPTYCH by Heidi Latsky, Montclair State University (Montclair) 2016
AWARDS/HONORS
Artist/Scholar in Residence, Georgetown University, Spring 2022
AIR, Abrons Arts Center, 2021-2022
Cover Story, Dance Magazine, 2021
Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, 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
PETRONIO Award, Petronio Residency Center, 2021
Summer Residency, Performance Space New York, 2019, 2 weeks, Breaking and Entering
Art & Disability Cohort, Art Beyond Sight, 2019, 12 months, Phys. Ed: BALANCE
PASS Artist, Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Gardens, 2018, 1 month, PHYS. ED
CURATION
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
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
Dance/USA, Trustee & Vice Chair
EDUCATION
The King’s College, BA in Media, Culture, and the Arts, 2013