Photo by Hayim Herron
Image Description:Jasmine, a black femme with brown skin and shaved head, looks straightforward.

Jasmine Hearn

Jasmine Hearn is from the land of the Karankawa and Atapake people, now known as Houston, TX. A curator, director, choreographer, organizer, teaching artist, and a 2017 Bessie award winning performer, they are currently a company member with Urban Bush Women and a 2019 Jerome Foundation Jerome Hill Fellow. Jasmine also creatively collaborates with Alisha B. Wormsley, Vanessa German, Holly Bass, Jennifer Nagle Myers, and Solange Knowles.

Jasmine’s creative embodied practice is rooted in social and performative dance and vocal traditions and techniques, Hatha yoga, and a blend of somatic practices, including BodyMindMovement. As a teaching artist and choreographer, they are greatly influenced by teachers and mentors, Claudette Johnson, Byronné J Hearn, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Marlies Yearby, Kathryn Leary, Staycee Pearl, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, jhon r. stronks, Kendra Portier, Barbara Mahler, Pamela Pietro, Sherie van den Wijngaard, Joy KMT, Alisha B. Wormsley, Samita Sinha, Lisa E. Harris, and Pyeng Threadgill. Jasmine has been able to share her solo and collaborative work at New York Live Arts, BAAD!, Danspace Project, The Camargo Foundation, Pillsbury Theater, La MaMa Theater, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, and site specific locations in Pittsburgh, PA, Houston, TX, and Washington DC.

2016 Van Lier Emerging Artist of Color Fellow,

2018 Artist-in-Residence,

Faculty,

Morning Class Faculty,

MELT Faculty,

Spring 2020 [email protected] Artist,

[email protected] Artist

Past Classes & Events

[Virtual] Morning Class

 Mon, Nov 2 – Nov 23, 2020
class

[Virtual] Morning Class

 September 18, 2020
class

[Virtual] Morning Class

 September 14, 2020
class

[Virtual] MELT – make me a home

 Jul 20 – Jul 24, 2020
melt

[Virtual] Morning Class

 Tue & Thu, Apr 21 – Apr 23, 2020
class

[Virtual] Morning Class

 Tue & Thu, Apr 7 – Apr 9, 2020
class

Movement Research at the Judson Church

 March 09, 2020
performance

Morning Class

 Mon & Fri, Sep 23 – Sep 27, 2019
class

MELT–listening to pleasure at the boundary

 Jul 29 – Aug 2, 2019
melt

Morning Class

 Mon & Fri, Mar 25 – Mar 29, 2019
class

[email protected] – Morning Class

 January 18, 2019
class

Movement Research at the Judson Church

 December 10, 2018
performance

Morning Class

 Tue & Thu, Dec 4 – Dec 18, 2018
class

Morning Class

 November 26, 2018
class

MELT–fantasy feeling and the erotic

 Jul 30 – Aug 3, 2018
melt

Morning Class

 April 05, 2018
class

Movement Research at the Judson Church

 February 26, 2018
performance

Vertigo

 June 03, 2017
event

A Glit Together

 Oct 31 – Nov 1, 2016
performance

Movement Research at the Judson Church

 September 19, 2016
performance