Join the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series (PAS) and the Dance Program as we welcome guest artist Jerron Herman and delve into integrating disability beyond our normalization of representational patterns as quick-fix solutions.
October 2 from 4-6pm: Building VITRUVIAN Movement Workshop
In this movement workshop for every willing body, discover the limbs through awakening exercises that describe the relationship of the body across its planes. Enter the choreographic process through an artistic inquiry and embodied/performance research method created by guest artist Jerron Herman that supports his practice of intersecting disability and movement.
October 3 from 7-8:30pm: VITRUVIAN followed by Q&A
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.
October 4 from 10am-12p: The Porch: Beyond Disability Representation in a Multimodal World
Join the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series (PAS) and the Dance Program as we welcome guest artist Jerron Herman and delve into integrating disability beyond our normalization of representational patterns as quick-fix solutions. Affirming dynamic bodily existence requires us all to survey our relationships with and approaches to ableness. We can employ all platforms available to each us to provide more comprehensive agency to all of our being and bodies.
The Porch Series, created by Dr. Lela Aisha Jones, was described by renowned artist nia love as a “glitch in the institutional matrix” where artist/scholars partake in interdisciplinary call and response in dialogue and movement. These events aim to transport us to a time when folks still sit on multimodal porches to bask in the awe of collective brilliance that emerges from dismantling formalities and facilitating intellectual exchange uncaptured by limiting frameworks. Past porch events include The Porch: A Studio Dialogue with nia love and Fred Moten (2020) and The Porch: Interview & Embodied Interactive Dialogue with Nia Eubanks Dixon (2023).
Co-curated by the Bryn Mawr College Dance Program
We are happy help with any special needs or accommodations due to disability. Please contact the Arts Office at 610-526-5300 or [email protected] in advance of your arrival to make arrangements. For assistance when the office is not staffed, contact campus safety at 610-526-7911.