Marguerite Hemmings

Marguerite Hemmings, performance artist and educator, is Jamaican born and raised in New Jersey. She graduated from Columbia University in Education and Urban Studies. Marguerite is a movement improviser that specializes in street and social dance styles, referencing her belief in social dance practices as a real time embodying of liberation, reparation, and social change.

Marguerite is also a youth worker who has been subverting, working, and creating with youth as a teaching artist for a very long time. She’s received grants from the Jerome Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Harlem Stage, University Settlement, and Dancing While Black to further her work as an artist/youth organizer. She is most recently a recipient of the 2017-18 Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center Fellowship, and through that, also the Projecting All Voices Fellowship at ASU. As a performer, she, along with 19 other comrades, is a 2017 recipient of the Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer in Eva Yaa Asantewaa’s Skeleton Architecture. As a choreographer, writer, and video artist she is working on a self-directed, multimedia endeavor called we free - a project that looks at the millennial approach to liberation and reparation through its music, social dance and social media.