Can You: Music Video by Jerron Herman and Molly Joyce
November 7, 2019
Molly Joyce and Jerron Herman. Photo by Evan Chapman
Breaking and Entering, is a new collaborative work between disabled artists Jerron Herman and Molly Joyce , exploring congenital and acquired physical immobility through their parallel weak left sides. Cracking a constrained narrative of disability, the pair’s diametric experiences will clash, cohere, and eventually congeal to reveal a dynamic picture of intersection. Come to the premiere at Danspace Project on November 12, November 15, and November 16, all at 8pm.
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In conjunction with the four original songs included in this evening-length work, please enjoy this music video and lyrics for Can You:
VIDEO
This video was made possible by Four/Ten Media.
Can You
words by Jerron Herman and Molly Joyce
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
break
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you
can you can you
can you can you can you can you can you can you can you break
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you can you can you can you can you break
can you break
can you break away from me
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you
can you can you can you can you
can you break
into me
were you born inside of me
did you break in front of me
break into me
break in front of me
break the side of me
and divide for me
the left of me
the side of me
the left of me
the front of me
the back of me
my arteries to be
ability
Jerron Herman is an interdisciplinary artist who’s been featured with Heidi Latsky Dance at Lincoln Center, ADF, the Whitney Museum, and abroad in Athens. He’s been a principal member of HLD since 2011. Jerron serves on the Board of Trustees at Dance/USA and is also a part of the Executive Committee as Secretary. He has spoken on various panels and now regularly moderates discussion on the intersections of art and culture. As a model, Jerron has shot for Tommy Hilfiger Adaptive, consulted for a Nike-sponsored project, and the Jewelry Library. He’s been profiled in Buzzfeed for his dancing, The New York Post for his fashion, and was featured on Great Big Story. In 2018 he was a Snug Harbor PASS artist, a finalist for the inaugural Apothetae/Lark Play Development Lab Fellowship and was nominated for a Fellowship in Dance from United States Artists. His latest solos include Phys. Ed. and Relative – a crip dance party. Phys. Ed has also been taught as a workshop at Marlboro College. He premiered another solo at The Whitney Museum to commemorate the 29th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Jerron studied at Tisch School of the Arts and graduated from The King’s College. The New York Times has called him, “…the inexhaustible Mr. Herman.” Check out more at www.jerronherman.com
Molly Joyce ’s music has been described as one of “serene power” (New York Times ), written to “superb effect” (The Wire ), and “impassioned” (The Washington Post ). Her works have been commissioned by ensembles including the New World, New York Youth, Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras, and New Juilliard, Decoda, and Contemporaneous ensembles. Additionally, her work has been presented at TEDxMidAtlantic, Bang on a Can Marathon, Classical:NEXT, VisionIntoArt’s FERUS Festival, and featured in Pitchfork, WNYC’s New Sounds, Q2 Music, I Care If You Listen, and The Log Journal. Also active as a performer, Molly often sings and plays with her vintage toy organ, an instrument she loves due to how it fits her impaired left hand. Her debut full-length album featuring such will be released on New Amsterdam Records in 2020. Molly has studied at The Juilliard School, Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and Yale School of Music. More information at mollyjoycemusic.com .
Breaking and Entering is supported by New Music USA. To follow the project as it unfolds, visit the project page: https://www.newmusicusa.org/projects/breaking-and-entering Breaking & Entering is supported, in part, by a residency at Performance Space New York with support from the Jerome Foundation, and by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.
This video was made possible by Four/Ten Media.
