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Jasmine Hearn is a visiting faculty member in the BFA Dance Lab at Bennington College for Fall 2025. An interdisciplinary artist, teacher, doula, performer, and organizer recently named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2025), she was born and raised on occupied Akokisa lands (Houston, TX) and grounds her work in community and matrilineal traditions.
Hearn’s practice spans dance and somatic traditions, sound composition, garment design, and matrilineal memory archiving, treating performance as an expansive discipline integrating diverse methodologies. Her work explores intersections of memory, identity, and embodiment through collaborative frameworks, influenced by mentors including Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Sandra Organ Solis, and Charmaine Warren.
Accolades include the Rome Prize in Design (2023), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2023), Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019), and dual Bessie Awards for Outstanding Performer (2021, 2017). Her Creative Capital-funded project Memory Fleet (2022–2026) examines ancestral memory through performance, with premieres in Houston (2024), Pittsburgh (April 2026), and New York (June 2026).
Hearn has collaborated with Bill T. Jones, Solange Knowles, and Urban Bush Women at venues including the Metropolitan Museum, Venice Biennale, and Guggenheim Museum, demonstrating her commitment to interdisciplinary performance that bridges artistic traditions and social practice.
