Jasmine Hearn

Color photograph of a dark skinned woman wearing a ankle length white dress in a white walled artist's studio; she strikes a dancing pose with both arms raised and torso leaning forward
Jasmine Hearn (photograph by Daniele Molajoli)

remembering your spine, my body

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remembering your spine, my body (2023) è una partitura di movimenti incarnata e guidata dagli spiriti e dagli antenati. Jasmine Hearn ballerà – ricordando e immaginando l’essenza delle cure materne del Popolo Nero che è entrato e uscito dalle coordinate terrestri dell’American Academy. Indossando capi disegnati in collaborazione con Athena Kokoronis della Domestic Performance Agency, Hearn sarà in movimento per tre ore.

Coreografia: Spirito, i miei Antenati e il Popolo Materno Nero che è entrato e uscito dalle coordinate terrestri su cui si trova l’American Academy.

Assistenza: Claudette Nickens Johnson e BJ Hearn.

Styling: Jasmine Hearn.

Design dei capi: Athena Kokoronis della Domestic Performance Agency e Jasmine Hearn.

I crediti completi per tutti i capi indossati sono elencati nello Studio 125.

Faccio parte di molti lignaggi: prendo le mosse dal lavoro svolto dalle donne nere, dalle persone non binarie, trans e queer.

La mia ricerca incarna riferimenti alle opere di Blondell Cummings, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Marlies Yearby, Saidiya Hartman, Robin Coste Lewis, Bebe Miller, Marjani Forte-Sauders, Ni'Ja Whitson, Chanon Judson, Mame Diarra Speis, Germaine Ingram, Maria Bauman, Paloma McGregor, MK Abadoo, Joan Miller, Staycee Pearl, Charmaine Warren, Audre Lorde e Alice Walker.

In ricordo di Kerry Ultimate-Phoenix Jackson.

Biografia

Jasmine Hearn è artistə interdisciplinare di fama internazionale, regista, performer, coreografə, organizzatrə, doula e insegnante. Il loro impegno è la performance come pratica espansiva che include uno spettro di tradizioni e tecniche di danza e somatiche, composizione sonora, design, cucina e archiviazione di ricordi matrilineari. Esprimono gratitudine allo Spirito, alle madri, e alle zie e a tutte le persone di colore che hanno sostenuto quel loro corpo che si muove e rimembra.

Le performance di Hearn sono state messe in scena in sedi quali il Kelly Strayhorn Theater (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2021); il New York Live Arts (New York, NY, 2021), il Moody Center for the Arts della Rice University (Houston, Texas, 2021); il Danspace Project (New York, NY, 2019, 2017); e la BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (Bronx, New York, 2016). Le compagnie con le quali hanno messo in scena performance includono Helen Simoneau Danse, Urban Bush Women e David Dorfman Dance. Numerose sono le collaborazioni con altri artisti, tra cui Holly Bass, Maria Bauman, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Gerard & Kelly, Vanessa German, Li Harris, Bill T. Jones, Solange Knowles, Tsedaye Makonnen, Ayanah Moor, Lovie Olivia, Staycee Pearl, Alesandra Seutin e Alisha B. Wormsley.

Hearn ha ottenuto un Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design insieme a Athena Kokoronis della Domestic Performance Agency (2023), il Creative Capital Award (2022), i New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards come Miglior Performer (2021 e 2017), la Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019), e il Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists (2023). Hearn ha ottenuto il titolo di artista residente presso Movement Research (New York, NY), Pittsburgh Foundation (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) e dalla Camargo Foundation (Cassis, Francia).

remembering your spine, my body

remembering your spine, my body (2023) is a durational embodiment score that is led by Spirit and ancestry. Jasmine Hearn will be dancing—remembering and imagining the spines of the Black mothering people who have entered and exited the land coordinates of the American Academy. Wearing garments designed in collaboration with Athena Kokoronis of Domestic Performance Agency, Hearn will be in continuous movement for three hours.

Choreography by Spirit, my Ancestors, and the Black mothering people who have entered and exited the land coordinates that the American Academy exists on.

Additional support by Claudette Nickens Johnson and BJ Hearn.

Styling by Jasmine Hearn.

Garment Design by Athena Kokoronis of Domestic Performance Agency and Jasmine Hearn.

Full credits for all worn garment pieces can be found listed in Studio 125.

I am a part of many lineages—I move from the work that has been done by Black women, nonbinary, trans, and queer people.

My embodied research references the works of Blondell Cummings, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Marlies Yearby, Saidiya Hartman, Robin Coste Lewis, Bebe Miller, Marjani Forte-Sauders, Ni’Ja Whitson, Chanon Judson, Mame Diarra Speis, Germaine Ingram, Maria Bauman, Paloma McGregor, MK Abadoo, Joan Miller, Staycee Pearl, Charmaine Warren, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker.

In loving memory of Kerry Ultimate Phoenix Jackson.

Biography

Jasmine Hearn is an internationally roaming interdisciplinary artist, director, performer, choreographer, organizer, doula, and teacher. They are committed to performance as an expansive practice that includes a spectrum of dance and somatic traditions and techniques, sound composition, design, cooking, and the archiving of matrilineal memories. They give gratitude to Spirit, their mothers and aunties, and all the mothering Black people who have supported their moving, remembering body.

Hearn has performed their work at venues such as the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, PA (2021); New York Live Arts, New York, NY (2021); Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, TX (2021); Danspace Project, New York, NY (2019, 2017); and BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Bronx, NY (2016). They have also performed with the companies Helen Simoneau Danse, Urban Bush Women, and David Dorfman Dance, among others, and collaborated with many artists, including Holly Bass, Maria Bauman, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Gerard & Kelly, Vanessa German, Li Harris, Bill T. Jones, Solange Knowles, Tsedaye Makonnen, Ayanah Moor, Lovie Olivia, Staycee Pearl, Alesandra Seutin, and Alisha B. Wormsley.

Hearn is the recipient of a Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design with collaborator Athena Kokoronis of Domestic Performance Agency (2023 a Creative Capital Award (2022); New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards for Outstanding Performer (2021, 2017); a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019);and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists (2023). They have been awarded residencies through Movement Research, New York, NY; Pittsburgh Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA; and the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France.