Note: This is documentation of the event that took place on June 17, 2023.

About:
In conjunction with Carolyn Lazard: Long Take, featured dancer and writer Jerron Herman will present a sketch of Lax – a solo performance he is currently developing on rest. Incorporating motifs of sleep, including references to the circadian cycle and textiles associated with bedding, Herman’s dance will extend their contribution to Long Take and activate ICA’s terrace.

This performance is presented in collaboration with I wanna be with you everywhere, a collective formed by Arika, Amalle Dublon, Jerron Herman, Carolyn Lazard, Park McArthur, Alice Sheppard and Constantina Zavitsanos. The organizers write: “I wanna be with you everywhere is a gathering of, by, and for disabled artists and writers and anyone who wants to get with us for a series of crip meet-ups, performances, readings and other social spaces of surplus, abundance and joy. It refuses policies of individuation and inclusion in favor of (and in the flavor of) whatever disability aesthetics has in bodymind. We won’t know what this is ‘til it shows us, but we do know that disability communities don’t only make art about disability. 😉 (winky face emoticon).

We’re operating from the point of view of access intimacy. Access isn’t an individual’s need, but a common capacity shared between us all.”

About the artist
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. Jerron’s most recent work VITRUVIAN premiered in May 2022, with a digital release in July. Tours have included the Baltimore Museum of Art curated by Johns Hopkins University and ODC in San Francisco. 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. He is also the choreographer and co-director of Sensorium Ex, a new opera. Jerron is a part of INTERIM, a boutique management consortium for disabled artists that includes Molly Joyce and Christopher Unpezverde Nunez.

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 NY Performing Arts “Bessie’s” Awards and also served on panels for NYSCA, 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. As a model and advocate, Jerron has worked with HIMS, Rothy’s, Tommy Hilfiger, Cerebral Palsy Foundation, Samsung x i-D, and Nike. Other accolades include a Dance Magazine cover story in March 2021, a 2021 Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in Dance from the Jerome Foundation. The 2021 PETRONIO Award and residency as well as a 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship by the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Jerronherman.com

Support
Programming at ICA is made possible in part by the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Fund to Support Contemporary Culture and Visual Arts and the Lise Spiegel Wilks and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation. Public and Student Engagement at ICA is supported by the Bernstein Public Engagement Fund, Suzanne Weiss Doft & Jacob W. Doft, Hilarie L. & Mitchell Morgan, and by Dana McDonald Strong & Mark W. Strong.

Videography by Christopher Andrew McDonald. Editing by Derek Rigby.