Memory Fleet: Work-in-Progress Showing ft. PearlDiving Resident Artist Jasmine Hearn

Friday, April 11th, 7:30pm

PearlArts, 818 Braddock Ave. Braddock, PA

Pay What Moves You: $5-$25

Memory Fleet is a continually expanding, episodic, migrating performance that builds an alternative archive for the preservation of shared memories and stories that center the work / rest and past / future of the Black people who have mothered and mentored Hearn’s artistic trajectory as an organizer, storyteller, dancer, and performer.Memory Fleetencompasses a series of performances, a shared embodied practice, a living archive, and a body of original sound, text, and recipes—all celebrating the stories, dances, and gestures passed on through Black intergenerational lineages.

Pay What Makes You Happy: $5-$25

Jasmine Hearn, raised on occupied Akokisa lands, is a two time Bessie award-winning performer, choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, teacher, doula, and organizer. Jasmine gives gratitude to all the mothering Black people who have supported their moving, remembering body. A 2022 Creative Capital Awardee, they currently lead Memory Fleet.

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, Earthen Vessels, Urban Bush Women, David Dorfman Dance, Helen Simoneau Danse, Staycee Pearl dance project, and Dance Alloy Theater performing at the Metropolitan Museum, BAM, New York Live Arts, Guggenheim Museum, Getty Center, Venice Biennale, Ford Foundation, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, and Danspace Project.

Photo Credit: Lynn Lane