Ariel Nereson
Biographic Data
| ID | 820848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ariel Nereson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ariel |
| FAMILY NAME | Nereson |
| SIGNATURE | NERESON A |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6550-1568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Scaffolding Freedom
On Flashing LightsBy Brendan FernandesPoor Boys Bar, Prospect.6, New Orleans, LA, February 1, 2025Any visit to New Orleans, Louisiana, should include some form of live performance. The city has one
Looking with Nona Faustine
Contemporary visual artist Nona Faustine’s White Shoes series stages and documents her reparative practice of taking self-portraits in sites around New York City where enslaved Africans lived, died, and are buried. Considering Faustine’s self-portrait series not only as photography but also as performance documentation invites theorizations of memorial practices (rather than monumental objects) and their affordances for liberatory aesthetic proje…
Beyond Trauma and Joy
Recent works in Black aesthetic and cultural production build on legacies of Black feminisms as they seek to ever-expand scholarly theories and accounts of multifaceted Black life. The four books considered here assemble sites and model methods that bring new dimensions to how performance studies might understand historical and ongoing freedom dreams and the field’s reenergized commitment to understanding aesthetic and cultural production as worl…
Decarcerating the University
A Set of Questions for a Field in Motion
In her landmark essay "Choreographies of Protest," Susan Leigh Foster articulated the central concerns of the (at the time) developing field of dance studies. Foster's following analysis, embedded in her argument about the compositional elements of social action, advanced core dance studies methodologies. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Theatre Journal , this essay revisits "Choreographies of Protest," published in the October 2003 iss…
Dancing Plague
Following the cancellation of influential contemporary choreographer Bill T. Jones's highly anticipated return to the stage in spring 2020, Jones reflected that COVID-19 was his "second plague." In referencing the AIDS epidemic that upended his career and personal life, Jones located methods of enduring not in the "unprecedented" present, but in the past. This essay considers the irreverent and buoyant Secret Pastures (1984), a work that reemerge…
Myself, Dancing
This essay analyzes Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company's 2009 work Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray and its centering of Black women in US American history and contemporary choreographic practices. While the work's revisionist representation of national history could be understood as activist in terms of its desire to activate the spectator, this essay centers what performance might do for Black women performers and their personal practices…
Analogy Trilogy dir. by Bill T. Jones
Dance Dramaturgy in Theory and Practice
Dance Dramaturgy in Theory and Practice Ariel Nereson (bio) BANDONEON: WORKING WITH PINA BAUSCH. By Raimund Hoghe. London: Oberon Books Ltd, 2016; pp. 262. DANCE DRAMATURGY: MODES OF AGENCY, AWARENESS AND ENGAGEMENT. Edited by Pil Hansen and Darcey Callison. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; pp. 202. DRAMATURGY IN MOTION: AT WORK ON DANCE AND MOVEMENT PERFORMANCE. By Katherine Profeta. Studies in Dance History. Madison: University of Wis…
Hamilton's America
Hamilton’s America: An Unfinished Symphony with a Stutter (Beat) Ariel Nereson (bio) Hamilton. The Public Theater, New York, April 12, 2015. How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten Spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor, Grow up to be a hero and a scholar? Lin-Manuel Miranda is no stranger to success on Broadway—his musical In the Heights garnered him four 2008 Tony Aw…
Queens "Campin'" Onstage
Mae West’s brief career as a playwright, mostly of her own star vehicles, led to multiple charges of obscenity and solidified her notoriety. This essay positions West’s “gay plays,” The Drag and The Pleasure Man , as unique instances of queer modes of performance and spectatorship. These productions, although both remarkably short-lived, staged queer communities, embodied in drag balls, that challenged social hierarchies both in- and outside the …
Hamilton's America
Hamilton’s America: An Unfinished Symphony with a Stutter (Beat) Ariel Nereson (bio) Hamilton. The Public Theater, New York, April 12, 2015. How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten Spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor, Grow up to be a hero and a scholar? Lin-Manuel Miranda is no stranger to success on Broadway—his musical In the Heights garnered him four 2008 Tony Aw…
Myself, Dancing
This essay analyzes Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company's 2009 work Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray and its centering of Black women in US American history and contemporary choreographic practices. While the work's revisionist representation of national history could be understood as activist in terms of its desire to activate the spectator, this essay centers what performance might do for Black women performers and their personal practices…
Queens "Campin'" Onstage
Mae West’s brief career as a playwright, mostly of her own star vehicles, led to multiple charges of obscenity and solidified her notoriety. This essay positions West’s “gay plays,” The Drag and The Pleasure Man , as unique instances of queer modes of performance and spectatorship. These productions, although both remarkably short-lived, staged queer communities, embodied in drag balls, that challenged social hierarchies both in- and outside the …
Hamilton's America
Hamilton’s America: An Unfinished Symphony with a Stutter (Beat) Ariel Nereson (bio) Hamilton. The Public Theater, New York, April 12, 2015. How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten Spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor, Grow up to be a hero and a scholar? Lin-Manuel Miranda is no stranger to success on Broadway—his musical In the Heights garnered him four 2008 Tony Aw…
Dance Dramaturgy in Theory and Practice
Dance Dramaturgy in Theory and Practice Ariel Nereson (bio) BANDONEON: WORKING WITH PINA BAUSCH. By Raimund Hoghe. London: Oberon Books Ltd, 2016; pp. 262. DANCE DRAMATURGY: MODES OF AGENCY, AWARENESS AND ENGAGEMENT. Edited by Pil Hansen and Darcey Callison. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; pp. 202. DRAMATURGY IN MOTION: AT WORK ON DANCE AND MOVEMENT PERFORMANCE. By Katherine Profeta. Studies in Dance History. Madison: University of Wis…
Analogy Trilogy dir. by Bill T. Jones
Myself, Dancing
This essay analyzes Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company's 2009 work Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray and its centering of Black women in US American history and contemporary choreographic practices. While the work's revisionist representation of national history could be understood as activist in terms of its desire to activate the spectator, this essay centers what performance might do for Black women performers and their personal practices…
Dancing Plague
Following the cancellation of influential contemporary choreographer Bill T. Jones's highly anticipated return to the stage in spring 2020, Jones reflected that COVID-19 was his "second plague." In referencing the AIDS epidemic that upended his career and personal life, Jones located methods of enduring not in the "unprecedented" present, but in the past. This essay considers the irreverent and buoyant Secret Pastures (1984), a work that reemerge…
A Set of Questions for a Field in Motion
In her landmark essay "Choreographies of Protest," Susan Leigh Foster articulated the central concerns of the (at the time) developing field of dance studies. Foster's following analysis, embedded in her argument about the compositional elements of social action, advanced core dance studies methodologies. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Theatre Journal , this essay revisits "Choreographies of Protest," published in the October 2003 iss…
Decarcerating the University
Looking with Nona Faustine
Contemporary visual artist Nona Faustine’s White Shoes series stages and documents her reparative practice of taking self-portraits in sites around New York City where enslaved Africans lived, died, and are buried. Considering Faustine’s self-portrait series not only as photography but also as performance documentation invites theorizations of memorial practices (rather than monumental objects) and their affordances for liberatory aesthetic proje…
Beyond Trauma and Joy
Recent works in Black aesthetic and cultural production build on legacies of Black feminisms as they seek to ever-expand scholarly theories and accounts of multifaceted Black life. The four books considered here assemble sites and model methods that bring new dimensions to how performance studies might understand historical and ongoing freedom dreams and the field’s reenergized commitment to understanding aesthetic and cultural production as worl…
Scaffolding Freedom
On Flashing LightsBy Brendan FernandesPoor Boys Bar, Prospect.6, New Orleans, LA, February 1, 2025Any visit to New Orleans, Louisiana, should include some form of live performance. The city has one
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