Made in 2021
Choreography and Performance: Jasmine Hearn
N I L E is a performance practice that has been shared as a series of durational solos rooted in nonlinear stream of consciousness that resources memory and pleasure. Each time performed, it is different. N I L E extends gesture and harmony into a satellite to receive a collective memory of the site’s specific coordinates of land and stars.
Installations of the solo have been performed at the following sites:
New York, New York – La Mama Moves Festival at La MaMa Theater
Queens, NY – AUNTS at the Chocolate Factory
SouthHamptons, NY – Lawn Dances/NY Pops Up at Southampton Arts Center,
Seattle, WA – Seattle Festival of Dance and Improvisation at Occidental Square
Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie Museum of the Arts
Houston, TX – Moody Center for the Arts
Houston, TX – Virtual performance filmed at the Houston MET Dance Center and presented by JACK (Brooklyn, NY)
Lewiston, Maine – Bates Dance Festival
Garments made and designed in collaboration with Athena Kokoronis of Domestic Performance Agency.
Photos © Steven Pisano, Kitoko Chargois & Myssi Robinson
Excerpts from N I L E : Red Riverbed Run Deep Witness Root
TIME CUE: 3:30
Performed at the Moody Center for the Arts in November 2021. Including duets with Becky Selle, FREWUHN, Jhon R. Stronks, and Kadie Henderson
N I L E : soil lines a vessel
Performed a part of AUNTS HERE June 2021
N I L E: Rose Rising
Co-produced by Houston Metropolitan Dance Center (Houston, TX) and JACK (Brooklyn, NY) in January 2022. Full performance video available upon request.