“I believe that I have a voice to make significant change in my society and as a choreographer, I’m a storyteller. So my stories can impact our people.”
Olivier
“Most of the ways that I understand dance, I’ve learned. And none of it’s mine, but because it gets to intersect in my body, I’m realizing that it makes it special.”
“I fell into dance literally by falling.”
Jasmine
Olivier Tarpaga
Lecturer, Diretor
Olivier Tarpaga, a 2018-2019 Princeton University’s Caroline Hearst artist in residence is a Lester Horton Award–winning dancer-choreographer and musician, a dance lecturer at the Lewis Center for the Arts, and the director of the African music ensemble for Princeton University’s Department of Music. Tarpaga’s major works includes...
MoreJasmine Lynne Hearn
Dancer
Jasmine Hearn is from the land of the Karankawa and Atapake people, now known as Houston, TX. A curator, director, choreographer, organizer, teaching artist, and a 2017 Bessie award winning performer, they are currently a company member with Urban Bush Women and a 2019 Jerome Foundation Jerome Hill Fellow. Jasmine also creatively...
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