Performance

Leslie St Dre

Artist, Organizer, Educator
Leslie St Dre was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Art in City: The City in the Art event at the Arts Research Center on July 17, 2015.

Leslie St Dre (formerly Dreyer) is an artist, organizer and educator dedicated to building joyfully militant and intersectional movements for land and housing justice. They’ve spent the past decade honing a tactical arts organizing practice utilizing integrated narrative and media strategies. This work merges popular education, on-the-ground organizing, direct action, performance and visual art towards...

Pamela Sneed

Poet, Performance Artist, Actress, Activist, and Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University
Pamela Sneed gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 8, 2023.

Pamela Sneed is a New York–based poet, performer, and visual artist. She is the author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery (Holt, 1998), KONG and Other Works (Vintage Entity Press, 2009), Sweet Dreams (Belladonna*, 2018), and Funeral Diva, published by City Lights in Oct 2020. Funeral Diva was featured in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Literary Hub, Artnet, and...

SA Smythe

Writer, Artist, and Assistant Professor of Black European Cultural Studies in the Department of African American Studies at UCLA
SA Smythe gave a Visiting Writer/Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 13, 2018.

SA Smythe is a blktrans nonbinary theorist, multi-instrumentalist, transmedia storyteller, and educator currently based in Tkaronto and Rome. Smythe’s antecartographic practice conjures black belonging and is concerned with the thrival of our relations beyond every border. They weave blktrans poetics, performance, light sculptures, sound composition, photography, and found footage/archival ephemera. Smythe’s transmedia work has been featured...

Daniel Leeman Smith

Director, Playwright, Dramaturg, Producer, and Program Manager of NYU's Creative Career Hub
Daniel Leeman Smith gave a Visiting Writer/Scholar/Director Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 10, 2024. Daniel Leeman Smith is a proud two-spirit citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He is a New York City based director, playwright, dramaturg, producer, and theatre educator whose work is positioned at the intersection of art, education, community, and activism, focusing on Native joy.

Recent credits include Stories of the Land (Dramaturg, Long Wharf Theatre), Chicago: Pigeon (Dramaturg, New Native Play Festival, Yale Indigenous Performing...

Henriette Slorer Jacobsen

Dancer and Professor at the Norwegian Theatre Academy
Henriette Slorer Jacobsen was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.

Henriette Slorer Jacobsen is a Norwegian dancer. She was educated at Den Norske Opera's Ballettskole and the Norwegian Academy of Ballet. Later, she was employed as an aspirant at the National Ballet and has worked freelance in Oslo with, among others, Lise Eger and Odd Johan Fritzøe, and she has appeared in the short film Exit by Marit Schade Ødegaard. From 1996 she was employed...

Jordan Simmons

Former Artistic Director of East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Jordan Simmons was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the 2014 Artist-in-Residence: Rick Lowe 10-day residency at the Arts Research Center on November 21, 2014.

Richmond native and proud graduate of JFK High, Jordan Simmons served as Artistic Director at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts (1984 – 2021) and has been a faculty member since 1974. A graduate of Reed College, active Mestre of Capoeira, licensed Shakuhachi (Japanese flute) teacher, and theater director, Mr. Simmons’ portfolio includes more than 50...

Shayna Silverstein

Scholar, Artist, and Associate professorof Performance Studies & Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Northwestern University
Shayna Silverstein gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on February 19, 2020.

Shayna Silverstein is an associate professor in the Department of Performance Studies and a faculty member of the Middle Eastern and North African Studies program at Northwestern University. Her teaching and scholarship broadly examine the politics and aesthetics of sound, movement, and performance in contemporary SWANA/Middle Eastern cultural production.

Silverstein's first book, Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria, will be...

Erika Chong Shuch

Performance Maker, Choreographer, and Theatre Director
Erika Chong Shuch was the ARC 2009-2010 Artist-in-Residence.

Erika Chong Shuch is a choreographer, director, and performance maker interested in expanding the way performance is created and shared. Shuch’s work spans devised experimental performance and social practice, and produces unexpected forms of audience engagement.

Shuch’s original works have been presented and commissioned in the Bay Area and beyond since 2000. She co-founded For You, a performance group that brings strangers together for intimate encounters and considers performance making as gift-giving....

Gregory Sholette

Artist, Writer, Teacher, Activist, and Professor of Professor of Sculpture and Social Practice at CUNY Queens College
Gregory Sholette was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2013.

Dr. Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, teacher and activist. He is a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), as well as Co-Director with Professor Chloë Bass of the Andrew A. Mellon Foundation funded project Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY) headquartered in the Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, and was an associate of the Art, Design and the Public Domain program of...

Kim Sauberlich

ARC Fellow Assistant Professor of Musicology at the College of Charleston
Kim Sauberlich was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Kim Sauberlich is an Atlantic Music scholar who focuses on the intersection of embodied performance and racialized knowledge production. Sauberlich's dissertation and book project entitled Black Orpheus: Musical Scenarios in Atlantic Rio de Janeiro (1808-1888) examines Atlantic performances in the city of Rio de Janeiro, from the 1808 transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil’s 1888 official abolition of slavery. Rio was the only city in the history of modern empires...