Princeton Arts Fellow Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez presents a performance of an excerpt of Vitruvian, choreographed and performed by Jerron Herman. 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 in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the New York Public Library of Performing Arts following its premiere.
An audience Q&A will follow the 30-minute performance.
Cosponsored by Princeton’s Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES).
Tickets & Details
The performance is free and open to University students, faculty and staff. No tickets or advance registration required.
Photo Gallery
Jerron Herman performs excerpts from Vitruvian on April 11. Photo by Felicity Audet
Jerron Herman performs excerpts from Vitruvian on April 11. Photo by Felicity Audet
Jerron Herman performs excerpts from Vitruvian on April 11. Photo by Felicity Audet
Jerron Herman performs excerpts from Vitruvian on April 11. Photo by Felicity Audet
Princeton Arts Fellow Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez chats with Jerron Herman after performing excerpts from Vitruvian, a work Herman choreographed on April 11. Photo by Felicity Audet
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Accessibility
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About Jerron Herman
Photo by Adrian McCourt
Jerron Herman is a disabled artist working in dance and text to facilitate welcoming. He has premiered pieces at Danspace Project, Performance Space New York, and The Whitney Museum. Vitruvian premiered at Abrons Arts Center while Jerron was an Artist in Residence and will tour 2023-2024 on the Mid-Atlantic Arts roster. He began his training as a company member with Heidi Latsky Dance from 2011-2019 and is a collaborating member of Kinetic Light’s WIRED. Jerron is represented by Candace Feldman’s INTERIM, a boutique management consortium for disabled artists that includes Molly Joyce and Christopher Unpezverde Núñez.
Jerron has served on the board of trustees at Dance/USA since 2017, most recently as vice chair. He’s been a Selection Committee member for the New York Performing Arts “Bessie” Awards and also served on panels for New York State Council on the Arts, Dance/NYC, The Lark, Eyebeam, and Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. He curated the series Access Check 2.0: Mapping Accessibility for the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation from 2019-2020 and Discourse: Disabled Artists at The Joyce for The Joyce Theater in 2021. Jerron writes extensively on art & culture and his play, 3 Bodies, is published in Theater Magazine’s May/June 2022 issue. During the spring 2022 semester Jerron was the Artist/Scholar in Residence at Georgetown University, facilitating student engagement with Art and Disability. Accolades include a Dance Magazine cover story in March 2021, a 2021 Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in Dance from the Jerome Foundation, and the 2021 Petronio Award and residency, as well as a 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship by the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
