Memory Fleet: Beloved, Let’s Cross (2026)
By Jasmine Hearn
Projection Design by Nica Ross
June 11-13, 2026
Memory Fleet: Beloved, Let’s Cross, by Jasmine Hearn, presented at New York Live Arts Theater, NYC in June, 2026.
Continuing a visual collaboration that began with Memory Fleet: Stay in the Circle, the projection design incorporated a live wireless thermal camera operated by dancer and videographer Myssi Robinson. The live video was composited over archival video gathered and composed by Hearn, creating a real time juxtaposition of the dancer’s bodies into and onto the memories that framed their choreography.
Additional Information via New York Live Arts Theater:
“Memory Fleet: Beloved, Let’s Cross encompasses a series of performances, a shared embodied practice, an evolving installation of archival materials, an expanding digital archive, and a body of original sound, text, and recipes — all celebrating the stories, dances, and gestures passed on through intergenerational lineages. Hearn’s Memory Fleet project began in 2014 with the creation of the interdisciplinary dance theater piece, Memory Keep(H)er with their grandmother. This performance was later made into a short film series — both iterations act as an alternative archive that listens and preserves the grandmother’s story of growing up in rural Texas in the 1940’s. Over a decade, the duet has expanded into the interdisciplinary project, which premiered in Houston, TX April 2024 with a site-specific installation and ensemble production – Memory Fleet: A Return to Matr was co-presented by DiverseWorks and Houston MET Dance.”
Performarers included: Jasmine Hearn, Nora Alami, Maria Bauman, Dominica Greene, Melanie George, Jenna Hearn, Jennifer Newsom, Pamela Pietro, Angie Pittman, Kendra Portier, jhon r. stronks, Wayne Smith, Charmaine Warren, and Tara Aisha Willis, with additional sonic collaboration by Jo Stewart and Ashley Teamer and camera operation by Myssi Robinson.