Jasmine Hearn: Memory Fleet: Time & Trinity

Performed by Jasmine Hearn, Charmaine Warren, and Marýa Wethers

Memory Fleet is a continually expanding, episodic, migrating performance and archive project that builds an alternative archive for the preservation of shared memories and stories that center the work/rest & past/future of the Black people who mother and mentor.

Continuing a decade of research, Jasmine Hearn travels to their teachers—people and places in order to sit at their feet and listen to stories, memories, and lessons. Sourcing these conversations, unwritten codes, gestures, and movements, they assemble memories as material—remembering/imagining recipes and maps of dances, songs, and designs for a joining of celebration and resilience.

Arriving here again
Breathing with palms of feet on the wooden floors loud with histories layering salt, evaporated waters, whistles, many incredible, many ordinaries, a range of tone.
Here again with an echoing of what I’ve learned and meeting at the intersection of my body what has been and what will happen.

Jasmine Hearn, born and raised on occupied Akokisa lands (Houston, TX), is an interdisciplinary artist, teacher, doula, performer, and organizer. Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2025), Jasmine is a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2023), a Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design with Athena Kokoronis of DPA (2023), a Jerome Foundation Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019), and two NY Dance and Performance Bessie Awards for Outstanding Performer (2021, 2017* with the cast of skeleton architecture).

Jasmine has collaborated with Dream the Combine, Bill T. Jones, Saul Williams, Solange Knowles, Alisha B. Wormsley, okwui okpokwasili, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Tsedaye Makonnen, Holly Bass, Bebe Miller, and with dance companies, Urban Bush Women, and David Dorfman Dance, performing choreographic works 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 currently leading an archive and performance project, Memory Fleet, which has been awarded a Creative Capital Award (2022), a Creation Fund Award from National Performance Network (2022), and a National Dance Production Grant from New England Foundation of the Arts (2023). With its premiere Houston, TX as part of DiverseWorks Spring 2024 season, Memory Fleet continues to deepen and will be presented at Kelly Strayhorn Theater in April 2026 and New York Live Arts in June 2026.