Jasmine Hearn
ARTIST – PERFORMER – CHOREOGRAPHER – TEACHER
PRESS KIT 2023
IG @jasminehearncollaborates
jasminehearndances@gmail.com
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PERFORMANCE
UPCOMING
Memory Fleet:
A Return to Matr
Premieres in HOUSTON in April 2024, presented by DiverseWorks
The project will then tour to Pittsburgh, PA, New York, NY, and Washington D.C. 2025 – 2026.
Memory Fleet is supported by grants awarded by Creative Capital and the National Performance Network.
Photo Credit: Jay War
Memory Fleet: A Return to Matr is a migrating performance and archive that preserves the living memories of eight Black matriarchs of the North and South sides of Houston, TX. Their shared stories will be the source for original sound scores, choreographies, and garments that will be experienced as a site-specific performance, album, feast, online archive, anthological catalog, and a mercurial system of somatic, embodied sound and dance practice. This developing memory-keeping practice will then tour to Pittsburgh, PA, Washington DC, and New York, NY in order to archive the living memories of Jasmine’s dance mothers within their communities. Read more…
PRESENT
Photo Credit: Malcolm-x Betts with Dominica Greene and Jasmine Hearn
Salt and Spirit is a new work by Jasmine Hearn in collaboration with performers Dominica Greene, Kendra Portier, Marýa Wethers, and Charmaine Warren, and with creative support from Nora Alami and Myssi Robinson. The piece includes a dance of many myths and a song for stilling as it continues the nonlinear stories of N I L E and Trinity. Original sound by Hearn in collaboration with Lily Gelfand and Angie Pittman, with additional design by Athena Kokoronis of DPA, Salt and Spirit is a layering of remembered recipes, unkempt stories, and forgotten adornments.
PAST
NILE
Premiered at La Mama Moves Festival, Summer 2021
A durational solo series by Jasmine Hearn
Duration: 30 minutes – 4 hours
Photo credit: Steven Pisano
Trinity : child you lost water
Premiered at Jacob’s Pillow, Summer 2022
Photo Credit: Sonja Stranova
PRACTICE
CLASS – WORKSHOP – LECTURE DEMONSTRATION
Jasmine’s embodied practice is rooted in a layering of dance, somatic, design, and vocal traditions greatly influenced by teachers and mentors, Claudette Nickens Johnson, Byronné J Hearn, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Marlies Yearby, Staycee Pearl, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush Women, Bennalldre Williams, Charmaine Warren, Marýa Wethers, jhon r. stronks, Kendra Portier, Barbara Mahler, Pamela Pietro, Sherie van den Wijngaard, Joy KMT, Alisha B. Wormsley, Samita Sinha, and Li Harris.
Their commitment to performance is an expansive practice that includes dance, embodied sound, garment design, painting, and the archiving of matrilineal memory. Jasmine gives gratitude to Spirit, their mothers, and all the mothering Black people, who have supported their dreaming dancing moving remembering body.
Photos above left to right: In Photograph: Nora Alami, Charmaine Warren, Jasmine Hearn, Marýa Wethers, and Symara Johnson. Credit: Myssi Robinson; Credit: The Fleet.
Jasmine is available to share their practice in these formats:
Class
Referencing a variety of dance and movement traditions and techniques, this experience includes a warm up, time to listen to the range of each individual’s movement, and ends with a phrase or group improvisation score.
Duration: 60 minutes – 2 hours
Workshop
Easy body stretching and somatic prompts for anybody
Duration: 45 minutes – 1 hour
Lecture Demonstration
A conversation about choreography, practice, site specific performance, and interdisciplinary work
Duration: 45 minutes – 90 minutes
All formats are available to people who want to move, remember, and imagine with the bodies and voices they have that day.
Please email jasminehearndances@gmail.com
for additional information.