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a l o n g s i d e – Pittsburgh to Providence by Jasmine Hearn

March 11, 2021

A graphic design with photos of blackberries, blueberries, and sliced peaches. In the center of the design, two hands arrange berries and sliced peaches on raw pastry. A galette? A pie? One hand wears a silver ring on their middle finger and a silver bracelet hangs on their wrist. The other hand is blurred in motion.
Photo of Dana Bishop Root. Image design by Jasmine Hearn. Courtesy of Jasmine Hearn.

 

Interdisciplinary dance artist, Jasmine Hearn, offers a recipe for remembering. Through text, image, and voice, Hearn invites us to travel to a distant summer, a road trip, and the kitchen table. In this piece, Hearn recalls time spent and meals shared with collaborator, poet, and theater-maker, Jo Stewart. To learn more about their collaborative process, please see the Fall, 2020 Conversation Without Walls: Jasmine Hearn & Jo Stewart with Seta Morton.

This journal release coincides with a new commission for Hearn at DANCE NOW with a new work to be shared online. For more info, click here.

“a l o n g s i d e – Pittsburgh to Providence” can be enjoyed through the text, images, and two audio tracks below.

Danspace Project · a l o n g s i d e – Pittsburgh to Providence by Jasmine Hearn

 

Black type on a gold background: I am asking, how this multitasking document remembers October? This an offering and an organizing device—a way to name two ongoing conversations with Dana Bishop Root and Jo Stewart. A remembering of time by measuring our holdingcarrying of food, attention, feelings, and memories. I am listening to the spacial coordinates of my hips next to Dana’s in Pittsburgh and my hips next to Jo’s in Providence measuring the distance. I am naming memory by its relationship to the multiple locations of where my breathing body is in time. It is a bit of a trail.

 

Photo of a soft orange and blue sky layered over a drawing of many rings and circles in blue pen. The word "valley" written in the top left corner.

three photos of food: 1) A fritata with small orange and red tomatoes garnishing the plate, 2) A dark stew of lentils, meat, and greens, 3) Shrimp and beans in sauce over white rice

A rectangular sketch drawing of orange and yellow and pencil markings interrupts a larger photograph of a tree top below an orange to blue sky. On the photo: Your lamb and lentil soup stole my heart and the weeping cherry tree heavy curtaining us in quiet. Jo

Green type of a blush pink background: I reached out to you last summer because I missed you. We had been talking and working. It felt like all of a sudden, you and J were right outside of that mounted home I had been healing in. The scarlet runner beans were in full—fuchsia tracing the door. It was a little chilly. I made you tea and J coffee. we get settled in for J’s bomb chicken dinner and a week of pausing, stopping, walking, and meeting. You and I finding threads to feel out with taste, sound, gesture. We hold hands some of these times and other times let go. Measuring distance by how much rest you need, how much rest I need.

On top of a bright red background, is a sketch of markings in many colors, with notes written: Private Jo and Erica Hunt meet at a joint joining wave of world: lovers of orange and the staining

 

All writing, sketches, notes, and photos by Jasmine Hearn.

Jasmine Hearn is from the occupied land of the Karankawa and Atapake people, now known as Houston, TX. A performer, director, choreographer, organizer, teaching artist, and a 2017 Bessie award winning performer with Skeleton Architecture, they have crafted and shared solo and collaborative dance theater performances rooted in identity, memory, and the facilitation of creative space for feelings and fantasy. Jasmine’s commitment to dance is an expansive practice that includes performance, collaboration, sound, and garmentry. They are currently a company member with Urban Bush Women and a 2019 Jerome Foundation Jerome Hill Fellow.

Learn more at www.jasminehearn.com.

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