Trigger Warning: The contents of this production contain topics of rape, sexual abuse, and violence and may be disturbing to some viewers. Please step away and take care if needed.

Program details:

Featuring Ke'Ron Wilson and Donald C. Shorter Jr.
Format: Interview, Artist Presentation
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Ke'Ron Wilson ​(she/they) is a movement artist, choreographer, and poet currently based out of Brooklyn, NY. A Sam Houston State University Alum, she has set and presented work and performed in the greater Houston Area. She was awarded Dance Source Houston’s Spark Dance Grant in 2021, and has most recently presented work as an emerging choreographer with Mare Nostrum’s Emerging Choreographer’s Series in NYC. Their art, being heavily influenced by their activism, pulls from a wide range of disciplines and seeks to cultivate a shared sensitivity towards the human condition. Each piece of poetry and movement exploration is designed to invite the audience into a realm in which mind, body and spirit are unified towards personal and collective liberation. Ultimately, aspiring to expand our collective perception of gender, sexuality, race and Spirit as they relate to movement, healing, and the arts.
@keronjwilson

Donald C. Shorter Jr. (he/her)
Assistant Professor of Theater
M.F.A. Dance, New York University 2017
B.S. Liberal Studies, West Chester University 2002
Shorter is an interdisciplinary artist with over two decades of professional dance and theater experience. They were a principal dancer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and have appeared in Broadway national tours such as: La Cage Aux Folles, A Chorus Line, Hairspray and have worked regionally at Theater Under The Stars, The MUNY, and Gateway Playhouse. As a solo artist their works have been performed at the Pompidu Centre, The Provincetown Theater, The Criterion Channel, Bam Cinema, The Houston Contemporary Arts Museum, and The 92nd Street Y.
Research Interests: Gender performance, LGBTQIA inclusion in theater and dance, dance cinema
@donxmen