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Jill Sigman
Jill Sigman is an interdisciplinary artist and agent of change whose work exists at the intersection of dance, visual art, and social practice. She choreographs with bodies and materials. Working with things we cast off such as ‘garbage’ and ‘weeds’, Sigman helps us to re-see our environments and envision a future in which we re-connect with the natural world and each other in meaningful and empathic ways. She was the first Gibney Dance Community Action Artist in Residence, and has been an Artist in Residence at Movement Research, Guapamacátaro Interdisciplinary Residency in Art and Ecology (Mexico), The Kri Foundation (India), The Rauschenberg Residency, the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, and the NYU Tisch Initiative for Creative Research. She as been a Green Choreographer at The Dance Exchange and a Creative Campus Fellow at Wesleyan University. Last semester she was a visiting faculty member at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University. Sigman is currently working on a project called ‘Body Politic, Somatic Selves’ to explore the ways that current political concepts, choices, and predicaments live in the body. Her book Ten Huts was recently published by Wesleyan University Press.