Jasmine Hearn, born and raised on occupied Akokisa lands (Houston, TX), is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher, doula, performer, and organizer. Jasmine, recently named one of Dance Magazine’s "25 to Watch" (2025), is a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2023), Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design with collaborator Athena Kokoronis of Domestic Performance Agency (2023), a Creative Capital Award (2022) for their current project, Memory Fleet, a Jerome Hill Jerome Foundation Artist Fellowship (2019-2022), NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards for Outstanding Performer (2021, 2017* with the skeleton architecture). 

Jasmine has collaborated with Dream the Combine, Bill T. Jones, Saul Williams, Solange Knowles, Alisha B. Wormsley, Vanessa German, Okwui Okpokwasili, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Tsedaye Makonnen, Holly Bass, Bebe Miller, and with dance companies, Sandra Organ Dance Company, Urban Bush Women, David Dorfman Dance, Staycee Pearl dance project, and Dance Alloy Theater presenting choreographic work at the Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Live Arts, Guggenheim Museum, Getty Center, Venice Biennale, Ford Foundation, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Danspace Project, and the Hobby Center for Performing Arts. 

Jasmine is committed to performance as an expansive practice that includes a spectrum of dance and somatic traditions and techniques, sound design, garment design, 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. They have also been greatly influenced by teachers, mentors, and collaborators, including Begee, Joy KMT, Barbara Mahler, Pamela Pietro, Kendra Portier, Samita Sinha, Sandra Organ Solis, jhon r. stronks, Sherie van den Wijngaard, Charmaine Warren, Marýa Wethers, Bennalldre Williams, Marlies Yearby, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Hearn received a B.A. from Point Park University.

Summer Dates for - Spectrum of Strength

An Improvisation Class with Jasmine Hearn

Saturday Afternoon 3:00pm - 4:15pm (75mins)

July 26th

August 2nd, August 23rd, August 30th

September 6th, September 20th, September 27th

$20 pre-registered/ $22 Walk up

This class is open to all bodies that want to move, remember, and listen. 

Intention is to share an interdisciplinary practice rooted in traditions, practices, and methodologies of improvisation, dance, somatics, performance, preservation, sound composition, garment design, and cooking.

We will warm up and attune our bodies – connecting our sensorial experience to memory and imagination. We identify and learn from our individual experiences to source embodiment material that is unique to each of our personal stories.