Theater & Dance Showing by Bessie Award Winner Jasmine Hearn

Jasmine Hearn is a native Houstonian who graduated from Point Park University with a B.A. in dance. She is a Bronx-based choreographer, performer and dancer, currently collaborating with Alisha B. Wormsley and Tara Aisha Willis, and a company member with David Dorfman Dance. Throughout her career, she has had the honor to have worked with jhon r stronks, Ayanah Moore, Paul Kruse, Solange Knowles, Jenn Meridian, Julien Prêvioux, Lisa Harris, Claudette Johnson and Lovie Olivia.

Recently she won a 2017 Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer as a part of an ensemble now called the Skeleton Architecture. As a recent artist in residence at The Camargo Foundation, Jasmine collaborates in multidisciplinary projects and has performed her work around the world.

Jasmine joins the Theater and Dance Department this week as a choreographer in residence as part of Theater and Dance Course 266/267 Ensemble: Dancing in Community, taught by Visiting Assistant Professor Dante Brown. Join us in a showing of her work, open to the Amherst College community!