Performance

Sarah Hennessey was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Sarah Hennessey is Nimíipuu and she is a poet, performer, playwright, and youth empowerment theater practitioner. Her work highlights the symbiosis of storytelling and language reclamation. By integrating her penchant for literature and performance into her educational outreach, Sarah infuses her instruction with...

Trajal Harrell gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 16, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Trajal Harrell gained international recognition for creating a series of works that bring together the tradition of voguing - a modern dance style developed in the late 1980s from the Harlem ballroom scene - with early postmodern dance. He is considered to be one of the most important choreographers working in contemporary dance today. In his latest work, the artist combines theoretical ideas from...

Joanna Haigood was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Impact in the Arts Think Tank Symposium at the Arts Research Center on January 17, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Since 1979 Joanna Haigood has been creating work that uses natural, architectural, and cultural environments as points of departure for movement exploration and narrative. Her stages have included grain terminals, a clock tower, the pope’s palace, military forts, and a mile of urban neighborhood streets in the South Bronx. Her work...

Joe Goode was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Joe Goode is a Professor Emeritus in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. He is the Artistic Director of Joe Goode Performance Group with whom he has performed in the United States, Canada, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. His performance installations have been commissioned by the Krannert Art Museum, the M. H. DeYoung Museum, Capp Street Project, and The Fowler Museum...