Image Description: Jasmine wears a loose, white tank top and lifts their arms upward like wings. Other images of Jasmine are lightly overlaid on top, which blurs the form of their body. Photo by Whitney Browne.

Image Description: Audre receiving proprioceptive therapy on a massage table, taken at an angle from above Audre’s head and shoulders. Audre lies down with her masked face toward the ceiling. Laura’s arms extend toward her in the frame, making gentle contact with Audre’s upper rib cage underneath her collarbones and the depth of her shoulder girdle. They are both thin white femmes wearing neutral colors. Soft pink light surrounds them. Photo by Mae Eskanazi.

Image Description: Image of Angie Pittman wearing patterned pants, long sleeve shirt, and tennis shoes standing in dark and textured lighting. Photo by Ian Douglas.

Image Description: A woman with red hair and bare feet jumping. Woman is wrapped in stiff grey felt fabric. White background. Photo by Julieta Cervantes.

Conversation with Hyp-ACCESS, Angie Pittman,
​Jasmine Hearn, and Angie Hauser

Wednesday, March 24 at 6-7:30pm EDT
*Join these artists for classes on Thursday, March 25
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ABOUT THE EVENT:
This conversation, facilitated by Jennifer Nugent, is open to the public. No registration required. Click on the Zoom link below to join. In an effort to encourage spillage, sharing, and questioning, all FESTIVAL teaching artists participate in public conversation with the other artists scheduled to teach on the same day as them.

PAYMENT:
Sliding scale $0-50.
PayPal: freeskewlteam@gmail.com
Venmo: @freeskewl

​ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
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 collaborative dance theater performances rooted in identity, memory, and the facilitation of creative space for feelings and fantasy. They are currently a company member with Urban Bush Women and a 2019 Jerome Foundation Jerome Hill Fellow. As a teaching artist and choreographer, they are greatly influenced by teachers and mentors, Claudette Johnson, Byronné J Hearn, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Marlies Yearby, Kathryn Leary, Staycee Pearl, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, jhon r. stronks, Kendra Portier, Barbara Mahler, Pamela Pietro, Sherie van den Wijngaard, Joy KMT, Alisha B. Wormsley, Samita Sinha, and Li Harris. their commitment to dance is an expansive practice that includes performance, collaboration, sound, and garmentry.
​jasminehearn.com​

​A partnership between Hypermobile Crip creators, Laura Tuthall (she, they) & Audre Wirtanen (she, her), Hyp-ACCESS is a Disability Justice project reimagining models of care across body-related fields in response to the unique need in each for Hypermobile access. Widespread hypermobility indicates a diverse set of multi-systemic conditions that affect ~20% of the population - the most neglected in modern medical history. This reality is likely due to medicine’s eugenic origins, the demographics most affected, & aesthetic fetishization in dance. Hypermobile movers with varying Disabled and non-disabled identities are everywhere in dance & somatics, but without tailored accessibility & care resources. Audre & Laura run access programs in the arts, medical advocacy, & somatics, are accessibility consultants for dance organizations & policy groups, & run IRB-approved research to test methods efficacy & further research ethics.
www.hyp-access.com

Angie Pittman is a New York based Bessie award-winning dance artist. Her choreographic work has been performed at The Kitchen, Gibney Dance, BAAD! (BlaktinX Performance Series), Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, STooPS, The Domestic Performance Agency, The KnockDown Center(Sunday Service), The Invisible Dog(Catch 73), and Danspace Project (Food for Thought 2017, Draftworks, Platform 2018, A Shared Evening of New Work 2019). Angie has had the pleasure of dancing in work by MBDance, Ralph Lemon, Tere O'Connor, Cynthia Oliver, Anna Sperber, Donna Uchizono Company, Jennifer Monson, Kim Brandt, Tess Dworman, Antonio Ramos and many others.  Angie has also been able to create collaboratively with Jasmine Hearn, Jonathan Gonzalez, Athena Kokoronis, and Anita Mullin.  She holds a MFA in Dance and Choreography with a graduate minor in African American Studies from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is a M’Singha Wuti certified teacher of the Umfundalai technique. Angie’s work resides in a space that investigates how the body moves through ballad, groove, sparkle, spirit, spirituals, ancestry, vulnerability, and power.
www.angiepittman.com

​Angie Hauser is a BESSIE award-winning choreographer and performer. Her work is grounded in improvisation and collaboration.  She is a principal collaborator with Bebe Miller Company contributing to the work as a dancer, performer, and writer for 20 years.  She and long-time collaborator, Chris Aiken, create improvised performance projects which bring together musicians, dancers, and designers. Other collaborators and influences of her work include Jennifer Nugent, K.J. Holmes, Darrell Jones, Kathleen Hermesdorf, and musicians Mike Vargas and Jesse Manno. She teaches dance technique, choreography, and improvisation internationally.  She received her MFA from Ohio State University and is currently an associate professor and chair of dance at Smith College in Northampton, MA.
www.angiehauser.com
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