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A white nonbinary person with styled short brown hair poses on stage. They're seated on the floor with their legs folded under them. They lean on their silver cane with their left hand and hold a microphone with their right hand. They wear a black top tucked into a sleek black skirt with black boots.

Photo by Michael Bause.

Artists

Perel

They // Them // Theirs

Multidisciplinary Artist and Choreographer

New York, New York

Perel is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is centered on disability and queerness as they relate to care, consent, sexuality, and personal and historic trauma. Utilizing choreography to examine power exchange between the artist and audience, “Perel is a master at timing, of tension, relief, and intimacy, while creating a space of learning and unlearning” (Victoria DeJaco, Spike Magazine).

Their work has been presented at Abrons Art Center for American Realness 2018, Gibney Dance for American Realness 2019, The Chocolate Factory Theater co-presented with the New York International Queer Performance Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act at the Chicago Humanities Festival. Perel has received numerous residencies, commissions, and awards, most recently the Beth Silverman-Yam Award for Social Justice at Gibney Dance and the first International Artist in Residence for Disabled Dance Artists at Sophiensaele, Berlin. They were a selected disabled choreographer for Choreo-Lab, a pilot program of the integrated dance company, AXIS Dance, a Dance In Process Artist in Residence at Gibney Dance, and a Mertz-Gilmore Artist in Residence at Movement Research in New York.

Donor -Disability Futures is supported by Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 08.20.2024