
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 |