Jerron Herman (he/him) is a disabled artist working in dance and text to facilitate welcoming. From late 2018 into 2019 he produced four world premiere commissions for Gibney, Performance Space New York, The Whitney Museum, and Danspace Project, and performed excerpts at The Kennedy Center. Jerron joined Kinetic Light in 2019, having been a member of Heidi Latsky Dance since 2011.

Jerron has served on the Board of Trustees at Dance/USA since 2017, most recently as Vice Chair. He was a finalist for the Lark Play Development Lab/Apothetae Fellowship and received The King’s College Alumni Award also in 2017. From 2019-2020 he curated the series Access Check 2.0: Mapping Accessibility for the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation and writes extensively on art & culture. Jerron was named a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow by the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Fellowship Statement

My work aspires to connect disparate contexts together to reveal their cohesion. In recent pieces I’ve sampled and sourced from history, popular culture, and text. Now, I wish to use my body as a source. Growing up in medicalized contexts such as physical and occupational therapy I relied on others’ expertise of my body to will it and control it; I experienced a similar fashioning in dance, but through movement experimentation have noticed explicit choreography across my limbs. When mitigating pain or crossing my body I’ve noticed the movement is active, and has the potential to parallel contexts outside the body. I’m following the symbolism in my diagnosis to reveal the scholarship inherent in the unnoticed quakes. What can my warring hemispheres teach me?

Photo by Mark Wickens