Visiting Faculty Lecture:
Trajal Harrell
Type
Lecture
Series
Barbara Lee Lecture Series
Location
Old Dominion Fresco Barn
Skowhegan Campus
39 Art School Rd
Madison, ME 04950
Date
7:30 – 9 PM
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Our 2025 Barbara Lee Lecture Series continues with dancer and choreographer Trajal Harrell.
Trajal’s conversation will focus on the idea of breakthroughs. He explains, he will speak to “particular breakthroughs in my artistic work and more importantly a few ideas that changed my sense of myself as an artist—for the better.” Trajal’s earlier works explored and blended the tradition of voguing and early postmodern dance. In his actual research, he also incorporates theoretical and formal elements from butoh dance as well as early modern dance. He weaves together the different dance histories and places the body at the center of his research connecting notions of time, historical imagination, and transcultural references.
About the artist:
Trajal Harrell was the house director at Schauspielhaus Zurich and currently he is the founder and artistic director of Zurich Dance Ensemble. Trajal presented his work at The Whitney Museum, New York; Festival d’Automne, Paris; Schauspielhaus Zurich; Triennale, Milano; Roma Europa Festival; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; ICA Boston; Munich Kammerspiele; Serralves Museum, Porto; MUDAM, Luxembourg; Holland Festival, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Zurich; Fondation Cartier, Paris; Sao Paulo Bienal, between many others. His work Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem (Made-to-Measure)/Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M2M), has the distinction of being the first dance commission of MoMA PS1. In 2024, Trajal was awarded the Silver Lion of The Venice Biennale of Dance.
About The Barbara Lee Lecture Series:
The Barbara Lee Lecture Series is an annual series that features faculty artists during our summer program. During this series, we open our campus to the public, welcoming our friends and neighbors into the conversations that take place at the School. After the summer program, the lectures become part of the Lecture Archive, a growing collection of recordings that can be accessed online or on request.
