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Jack Ferver

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Jack Ferver
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Ferver c. 2015
Born
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
🏫 EducationInterlochen Arts Academy
💼 Occupation
Known forChoreography
🌐 Websitehttps://www.jackferver.com/

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Jack Ferver is a New York based dancer, choreographer, educator, director, writer, and actor.[1]

Early life

Jack Ferver grew up in rural Wisconsin, U.S., first Prairie du Sac and later Sauk City, where they experienced harrassment and bullying throughout their youth as "a little gay kid".[2][3] Ferver began working with a teacher who was influenced by Martha Graham when they were 13.[4] They received a scholarship to Interlochen Arts Academy for their senior year of high school, where they trained and met future collaborator Reid Bartelme.[4][5][6]

Career

After attending Interlochen, Ferver moved to New York City.[5] In 1997, intending to dance and act, Ferver was hired to perform in several commercials as well as their first film role in Outside Providence (1999).[4][7] Ferver hoped to land more film roles but had trouble finding a talent agent and recalled rejection from casting directors who had trouble viewing them as a young person, despite being eighteen years old when Outside Providence was filmed.[4][7] Around this time, they began to take classes at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.[4]

Ferver continued to appear onstage and act in television and film. In 1999, they performed in the premiere of Betty's Summer Vacation at Playwrights Horizons and in 2000, they appeared on several episodes of the Comedy Central TV series Strangers with Candy.[8][9] Throughout the early and mid-2000s, Ferver performed in theater, film, and television, appearing in several plays at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

Acting

On stage, Ferver has performed in Betty's Summer Vacation at Playwrights Horizons, the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival's musical adaption of But I'm a Cheerleader,[10] and in 2018 Ferver choreographed and portrayed Tinker Bell in a production of Leonard Bernstein's Peter Pan at The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.[11] On film and TV, Ferver portrayed Jimmy Tickles in Strangers with Candy, and had roles in High Maintenance, Gayby, Hunting Season, Outside Providence, and numerous others.[12]

"Berries and Cream"

Ferver became popular in 2007 for their appearance in a viral commercial for Starburst's Berries and Cream flavor.[13] The commercial featured Ferver portraying the character “Little Lad”, a man with a bob haircut, dressed in Victorian/Georgian clothing, expressing his love of the candy flavor in the form of a song and dance routine to two men at a bus station.[14] The commercial gained so much popularity, Starburst made a follow-up tutorial on how to do the dance.[15] In August 2021, the tutorial, rather than the commercial, rose to fame on TikTok. Many users recorded themselves doing the dance to the audio of Ferver reciting their famous Berries and Cream jingle. This audio has been used in more than 27,000 TikTok videos.[16][15]

Podcast

Fever and collaborator Bartelme, who had both been fellows at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, began hosting the podcast What's Going On with Dance and Stuff in 2017, with a consistent rule of releasing an episode every Friday.[6][17] Topics discussed, which often tend to be "more about the 'stuff' than the 'dance,'" according to Dance Magazine, include contemporary dance performances, books, Martha Graham, astrology, and Ferver and Bartelme's own work.[6][17]

Style

Ferver is most known for their dance-theatre shows that examine trauma, otherness, and queerness.[18][19] Ferver's work is characterized by "high-energy, often violent choreography and the juxtaposition of hyperbolic prose with hyper-real dialogue."[19] In interviews, Fever has cited Martha Graham and her autobiography Blood Memory as a particular influence in their exploration of concepts like "contraction and release", dark facets of the human psyche, as well as ritual and repetition.[3]

Ferver takes inspiration from films such as Poltergeist (Rumble Ghost) and Suspiria (I Want You To Want Me) in much of their work. In 2011 with the QWAN (Quality Without a Name) Company, Ferver created and performed in satirical live readings of the films Notes on a Scandal and Black Swan titled Notes!!! and SWAN!!![20][21]

Expression of gender and sexuality are central themes throughout Ferver's work. Their piece Two Alike, described as a "psycho-sexual semi-autobiographical choreographic piece" explored their childhood through repetition.[2] In Everything is Imaginable, Ferver choreographed four soloists to "collectively exhume their personal queer histories and celebrate their childhood icons."[22]

Performances

Dance

Year[lower-alpha 1] Title Venue[lower-alpha 1] Role Notes[23]
2007 When We Were Young and Filled with Fear Dixon Place Choreographer, dancer [24]
2008 Meat: A Diptych Dixon Place Choreographer, dancer [24]
2009 Death Is Certain Danspace Project Choreographer, dancer [24]
A Movie Star Needs a Movie Abrons Arts Center Choreographer, dancer [25]
2010 Rumble Ghost Performance Space 122 Writer, choreographer, dancer [26]
2011 Two Alike Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Writer, choreographer, dancer [27]
Me, Michelle Museum of Arts and Design Choreographer, dancer [28]
2012 Mon, Ma, Mes French Institute Alliance Française Creator, performer [29]
2013 All of a Sudden Abrons Arts Center Choreographer, dancer [30]
2014 Chambre Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Choreographer, dancer [31]
2015 Night Light Bright Light Abrons Arts Center Choreographer, dancer [32]
2016 I Want You to Want Me The Kitchen Writer, choreographer, dancer [33]
2018 Everything Is Imaginable New York Live Arts Choreographer, dancer [22]
2020 Nowhere Apparent New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Choreographer, dancer [34]

Theater

Year Title Venue Role Notes
1999 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Long Wharf Theatre Alfred [35]
Betty's Summer Vacation Playwrights Horizons [8]
2000 Black Milk Quartet Ohio Theatre [36]
Dead End Huntington Theatre Company [37]
2001 Princess Turandot Westport Country Playhouse Truffaldino [38]
The Square Root of Minus One Market Theater Wiggins [39]
2003 Camelot Arena Stage Mordred [40]
2004 Sex*But Belt Theater [41]
2005 But I'm a Cheerleader Theatre at Saint Clements Part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival[42]
2006 Christmas on Mars Old Globe Theatre Nissim [43]
2018 Peter Pan Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Tinker Bell; choreographer [44]

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1999 Outside Providence Irving "Jiz" Waltham [45]
2001 Mean People Suck Jesse Milton Short film[46]
2001 Way Off Broadway Phil [47]
2007 Shortcut to Happiness Jabez's assistant
2012 Gayby Jamie [48]
2015 Front Cover Pascal

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2000 Strangers with Candy Jimmy Tickles [9]
2006 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Lenny's assistant
2010 The Big C Receptionist
2012 Hunting Season Nick [49]
2016 Deadbeat Spencer
High Maintenance Jason [50]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Denotes the date and place of the piece's world premiere; many of Ferver's pieces have subsequently been presented elsewhere.[23]

References

  1. ↑ Franko, Mark (2013). "Ferver Between Fear and Hope". PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. 35 (1): 58–63. doi:10.1162/PAJJ_a_00125. JSTOR 26376117. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Portwood, Jerry (May 18, 2012). "Jack Ferver Tells All". Out. Archived from the original on May 28, 2017. Retrieved February 6, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Millman, Debbie (host) (May 12, 2018). "Jack Ferver". Design Matters (Podcast). Design Matters Media. Archived from the original on July 25, 2020. Retrieved February 6, 2022 – via Drip. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Gladstone, Valerie (July 8, 2012). "Choreographer, artist team up for 'Two Alike'". The Boston Globe. pp. N1, N4. Retrieved February 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Perel, Marissa (October 6, 2012). "Jack Ferver in conversation with Marissa Perel". Critical Conversations. Movement Research. Archived from the original on July 19, 2021. Retrieved February 6, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Kourlas, Gia (May 5, 2020). "Where Dance Fans Can Escape From Our 'Sci-Fi Horror' Moment". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 20, 2020. Retrieved February 20, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Off beat". Wisconsin State Journal. September 26, 1999. p. 1C. Retrieved February 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Jones, Kenneth (April 16, 1999). "Betty's Summer Vacation Packs Up Its Things April 18 in NYC". Playbill. Archived from the original on October 21, 2020. Retrieved March 12, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Polly, John (May 4, 2007). "Berries & Cream! Little Lads! Remixes!". NewNowNext. Archived from the original on March 12, 2022. Retrieved March 12, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  10. ↑ Desk, BWW News. "But I'm A Cheerleader To Debut At NYMF With Chandra Lee Schwartz, Kelly Karbacz, Natalie Joy Johnson, John Hill And More". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  11. ↑ "Jack Ferver is Playing Tinker Bell, But He's Not a "Playful Queer Person" Right Now". Dance Magazine. 2018-07-06. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  12. ↑ "The Passion of Saint Ferver". www.out.com. 2016-01-12. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  13. ↑ Polly 5/4/2007, John. "Berries & Cream! Little Lads! Remixes!". LOGO News. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  14. ↑ Fuhrer, Margaret (2021-11-19). "The Little Lad? Berries and Cream? Call It Performance Art". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "How this "cursed" 2007 Starburst commercial became TikTok's latest trend". Newsweek. 2021-09-02. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
  16. ↑ Travis, Abi (August 31, 2021). "Why Is Everyone on TikTok Singing About Berries and Cream?". Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Shadle, Caroline (August 17, 2019). "What to Listen to: Our Top 3 Dance Podcast Picks". Dance Magazine. Archived from the original on January 28, 2022. Retrieved February 20, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  18. ↑ Barone, Joshua (2017-12-19). "Gibney Dance Expands Its Residency Program". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 "Jack Ferver :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  20. ↑ "SWAN – Performance Space New York". Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  21. ↑ "Spawn of "Black Swan": A new parody from Jack Ferver's QWAN Company". Dance Magazine. 2011-03-12. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Talijancic, Ivan (May 2018). "Jack Ferver with Ivan Talijancic". The Brooklyn Rail. Archived from the original on September 17, 2021. Retrieved July 3, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Ferver, Jack. "Bio". Jack Ferver. Archived from the original on March 31, 2022. Retrieved May 31, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Sierra, Gabrielle (July 21, 2009). "Jack Ferver Presents I Am Trying to Hear Myself And An Excerpt Of Candam Goodbar At PS122 7/22-26". BroadwayWorld. Archived from the original on May 31, 2022. Retrieved May 31, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  25. ↑ Horowitz, Andy (December 26, 2009). "American Realness Festival". Culturebot. Archived from the original on June 23, 2021. Retrieved July 3, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  26. ↑ Kourlas, Gia (December 10, 2010). "Laughing and Crying at Ghosts, Fictive and Real". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 17, 2022. Retrieved July 3, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  27. ↑ Flores Alvarez, Olivia (September 15, 2011). "Jack Ferver & Marc Swanson: Two Alike". Houston Press. Archived from the original on July 3, 2022. Retrieved July 3, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  28. ↑ La Rocco, Claudia (November 16, 2011). "Two Performa 11 Duets, Distinct Yet Conversant in Their Shared Themes". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 17, 2022. Retrieved July 3, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  29. ↑ La Rocco, Claudia (October 10, 2012). "Telling Almost All, and With a Wink". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 17, 2022. Retrieved July 3, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  30. ↑ Seibert, Brian (May 3, 2013). "A Meeting of Two Elizabeths, Not at All Related". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 17, 2022. Retrieved July 3, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  31. ↑ Burke, Siobhan (November 23, 2014). "Visual Arts Come to the Theater as Genres Blend and Bend". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 16, 2022. Retrieved July 3, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  32. ↑ Seibert, Brian (January 15, 2015). "Anguish, Wackily Recalled". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 16, 2022. Retrieved July 3, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  33. ↑ Seibert, Brian (July 1, 2016). "Review: An Innocent Abroad (Beware the Boss's Bite)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 16, 2022. Retrieved July 3, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  34. ↑ Murray, Linda (2021). Jerome Robbins Dance Division Annual Report FY20 (PDF) (Report). Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 3, 2022. Retrieved July 3, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  35. ↑ Borak, Jeffrey (July 3, 1999). "Minor players in Shakespeare tragedy are swept up by life's uncertainties". The Berkshire Eagle. p. C4. Retrieved May 2, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  36. ↑ Ehren, Christine; McGrath, Sean (January 20, 2000). "NYC's Talking Band Sings Black Milk Quartet Jan. 20-Feb. 6". Playbill. Archived from the original on March 2, 2021. Retrieved May 2, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  37. ↑ Hartigan, Patti (September 15, 2000). "Brave beginning with 'Dead End'". The Boston Globe. pp. D1, D12. Retrieved May 2, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  38. ↑ Johnson, Malcolm (June 11, 2001). "'Princess Turandot' Opens a New Era at Playhouse". Hartford Courant. Archived from the original on May 2, 2022. Retrieved May 2, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  39. ↑ Stark, Larry (2001). "'What Happened in Boston, Willie'". The Theater Mirror. Archived from the original on November 20, 2006. Retrieved May 2, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  40. ↑ Rousuck, J. Wynn (November 22, 2003). "'Camelot' shines in shadows of war, love". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on June 24, 2021. Retrieved May 2, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  41. ↑ Jones, Kenneth (October 7, 2004). "Everything You Wanted to Know About Male Sexuality Answered in New Comedy, Sex*But, Starting Oct. 10 Off-Bway". Playbill. Archived from the original on May 3, 2022. Retrieved May 3, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  42. ↑ Gans, Andrew (September 13, 2005). "But I'm a Cheerleader Comes of Age in NYMF Run Sept. 13-25". Playbill. Archived from the original on December 1, 2021. Retrieved May 2, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  43. ↑ Hernandez, Ernio (June 3, 2006). "Christmas on Mars Lands at San Diego's Old Globe June 3 as Kondoleon Comedy Starts". Playbill. Archived from the original on April 23, 2021. Retrieved May 3, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  44. ↑ Hetrick, Adam (May 23, 2018). "Leonard Bernstein's Peter Pan Will Be Reinvented at Bard". Playbill. Archived from the original on December 1, 2020. Retrieved May 3, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  45. ↑ Carroll, Matt (March 3, 2000). "Farrelly brothers succeed with Outside Providence". Daily Collegian. Archived from the original on March 12, 2022. Retrieved March 12, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  46. ↑ Bale, Theodore (August 21, 2011). "Fall arts faves include collaborative ventures, distinctive operas & a touch of scandal". CultureMap Houston. Archived from the original on March 12, 2022. Retrieved March 12, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  47. ↑ "Christmas on Mars program" (PDF). Old Globe Theatre. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 12, 2022. Retrieved March 12, 2022.
  48. ↑ Walsh, Katie (October 10, 2012). "Review: 'Gayby' Is A Slightly Amusing Little Comedy About…You Guessed It, Babymaking With Your Best Gay". IndieWire. Archived from the original on March 3, 2021. Retrieved March 12, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  49. ↑ Kramer, Gary M. (June 2, 2015). "Why You Should Be Watching 'Hunting Season' (Plus An Exclusive Clip)". IndieWire. Archived from the original on May 9, 2021. Retrieved May 2, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  50. ↑ Russell, John (September 18, 2016). "Exclusive: Colby Keller On Stripping Down On The Set Of HBO's 'High Maintenance'". Queerty. Archived from the original on October 6, 2020. Retrieved May 2, 2022. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

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