Threading residency
Our other pilot program, the Threading residency, honors the late Georgiana Pickett, a pioneer and steadfast contributor to the arts’ scene in New York. Through an annual nomination process, we recognize artists who are pushing boundaries and whose work is deeply rooted in rigorous movement-based practice or in live performance. The goal of this program is to support artists who are not based in New York City; through this residency program, the artists stay in NYC for two to three weeks while developing a specific project. Travel, housing, studio space, and a daily living stipend are provided. We selected Jasmine Hearn as the inaugural Threading resident for 2024.
Photos by Kearra Amaya Gopee.
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Jasmine Hearn, born and raised on occupied lands now known as Houston, TX, studied dance and embodied sound from a multitude of teachers, including their sister, cousins, aunties, instructors, and friends at family gatherings, church services, and weekly classes at the Houston Metropolitan Dance Center. Jasmine has been greatly influenced by teachers, mentors, and collaborators, including Byronné J Hearn, Claudette Nickens Johnson, 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. in Dance from Point Park University.
They are 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), New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards for Outstanding Performer (2021, 2017), a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019), and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants (2022, 2017). They have been awarded residencies through Movement Research, New York, NY; Pittsburgh Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA; and the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France.
Jasmine has creatively collaborated with artists, Solange Knowles, Alisha B. Wormsley, Vanessa German, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Maria Bauman, Lovie Olivia, Ayanah Moor, Sandra Organ Solis, Holly Bass, Li Harris, and companies, Urban Bush Women, David Dorfman Dance, and Helen Simoneau Danse, which have produced solo and collective dance choreography for performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Live Arts, the Guggenheim Museum, the Getty Center, the 2019 Venice Biennale, the Ford Foundation, Danspace Project, BAAD!, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, and other internationally acclaimed art spaces such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Jasmine is committed to performance as an expansive practice that includes a spectrum of dance traditions and techniques, technologies of care, 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, traveling, remembering body.