Fellows in Residence

Dance

Sarah Skaggs

Artistic Director of Sarah Skaggs Dance / Director of Dance, Associate Professor of Dance Studies, Theater and Dance Department, Dickinson College – United States

Sarah Skaggs, artistic director of Sarah Skaggs Dance, has been making dances in New York City for over 25 years. She has received numerous fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Jerome, Harkness, Greenwall and Rockefeller foundations. Her work focuses on the relationship between the body and spirituality as impacted by social and political dynamics. Currently, she is the director of the dance program at Dickinson College.

Range is a dance project that reframes the well-worn topic of aging and dance from one based on dwindling bodily possibilities to one of limitless capabilities. The work addresses issues surrounding aging and the dancing body, particularly westernized notions of beauty and grace. Embracing a new poetics of the crease, the fold, and the dent, she aims to recast an aging body as something “written on,” an embodied life writ large and decades in the making.

Film/Video

Broderick Fox

James Irvine Professor of Media Arts & Culture, Occidental College – United States

Broderick Fox is a media practitioner and scholar whose creative work, teaching, and research engage media production, documentary studies, media aesthetics, and the potential for digital technologies to expand voice and produce social change. His award-winning documentaries foreground queer voices, including his own. His book Documentary Media: History, Theory, Practice (Routledge) is now in its second edition.

During his residency, Broderick Fox looks forward to completing principal editing on his latest documentary Through Flood and Fire, in which a group of queer American teenagers seek out an array of LGBTQ+ and QTBIPOC community elders to imagine more inclusive and sustainable futures. Fox is eager to engage other fellows in interdisciplinary, transnational dialogue around these issues and find ways to counteract the rising tide of reactionary political forces who seek to silence such exchange and social progress.

Humanities Scholarship

Kenneth Guest

(Public Humanities) – Professor of Anthropology, Baruch College, CUNY – United States

Ken Guest (BA Columbia U.; PhD City University of New York) teaches courses on immigration, religion, China, and New York City. Fluent in Chinese, he is author of God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York’s Evolving Immigrant Community (NYU Press 2003); four leading US textbooks, including Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age (WW Norton 2024) now in 4th Editions; and myriad other articles and papers.

The Wallet, both history and memoir, explores Ken Guest’s family’s engagements with missionaries, colonialism, independence movements and war in India, China, and the Philippines, 1925-1945, including three years in a Japanese World War II concentration camp. Exploring intergenerational impacts of trauma and resilience, the project maps stories and strategies for asserting humanity and meaning in the face of extreme violence and hate, tools essential to escaping today’s pandemics of chaos and war.

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Architecture

Doris Sung

Architect, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Southern California – United States

Doris Sung brings active systems to sustainable design far beyond the simple "greening" of a building. With the belief that buildings can be more sensitive to the changing environment like human skin, she seeks ways to make the building skin dynamic and responsive. Through grant-funded research, she is developing smart materials, such as thermobimetals, to self-ventilate, self-shade, self-structure, self-assemble and self-propel in response to changes in temperatures--all with zero-energy and no controls.

Witnessing smart materials move on their own is magical. For this purpose, this residency will be used to refine a series of pop-up designs made of paper and thermobimetal (a material that curls when heated). They will be distributed as literal laptop dynamic exhibitions in a book format. Additional time will be spent on refining the text and graphics of the publication. The pop-up pages will be arranged in a sunny interior location to freely react to the moving sun at the Bogliasco Foundation.

Dance

Tess Dworman

Choreographer and performer – United States

Tess Dworman is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, performer, and audio describer. In New York, her work has been presented by many institutions including Abrons Art Center, the Chocolate Factory Theater, and Pageant. She performed and toured extensively in the work of Tere O’Connor and Juliana F. May. In 2020, Tess was honored as an “Outstanding Breakout Choreographer” by the Bessie New York Dance & Performance Awards.

During her fellowship, Tess will continue to develop a project entitled “The Con,” which merges her research in dance, impersonation, stand-up comedy, documentary filmmaking, and audio description. These forms come together through her longtime practice of solo improvisation. The ground for this work is a satirical questioning into the consumption of experimental performance, capitalistic provocations on liveness and presence, and the ethos of experimental performance in this time.

Dance

Jennifer Harge

Choreographer, artist, and educator – United States

Jennifer Harge is an artist and educator based in Detroit, Michigan. Using movement as an organizing principle, she spills across choreography, installation, film, and language—collapsing form and gifting herself the freedom to play, wander, and be with multiplicity. Her creative research conjures and theorizes Black pleasures and longings through intimate collaborations with her ancestral lineages and direct arts community.

FLY | DROWN is a storytelling project honoring Black women’s self-sovereignty. Told from the perspective of Black women’s flesh, dreams, homes, and prayers, FLY | DROWN is a world where Black women can simply be. Harge is currently developing a new chapter introducing JJ LOVE: a Black, queer auntie from everywhere and nowhere, who centers Black women’s sexuality as a “tender space of sanctuary, self-imagination, intimacy and creative play… (Jennifer C. Nash, 2018).”