Jasmine Hearn, born and raised on occupied Akokisa lands (Houston, TX), is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher, doula, performer, and organizer. Jasmine gives gratitude to Spirit, their mother and aunties, and all the mothering Black people who have supported their moving, remembering body.
Jasmine leads Memory Fleet – a performance and archive project supported by the New England Foundation of the Arts with a National Dance Project Grant (2024). Jasmine is also a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2023), a Creative Capital award (2022), and New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards for Outstanding Performer (2021, 2017).
Jasmine has collaborated with Dream the Combine, Bill T. Jones, Saul Williams, Solange Knowles, Alisha B. Wormsley, Vanessa German, Okwui Okpokwasili, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Lovie Olivia, Tsedaye Makonnen, and Holly Bass; with companies, Urban Bush Women, David Dorfman Dance, and Helen Simoneau Danse performing at the Metropolitan Museum, BAM, New York Live Arts, Guggenheim Museum, Getty Center, Venice Biennale, Ford Foundation, Danspace Project, BAAD!, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
