Marguerite Hemmings
Marguerite Hemmings is a Jamaican born, Jersey-raised performance artist and educator currently based in Philadelphia, USA. She specializes in experimental, emergent, migratory, improvisational, and social dance/movement styles and technologies, rooted in the story of the African diaspora.
Hemmings’ work centers itself in liberation. She has been subverting, working, and creating with youth as a teaching artist for a very long time. She has received grants from the Jerome Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Harlem Stage, University Settlement, and Dancing While Black to further her work. She is most recently a recipient of the 2017–2018 Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center Fellowship, and through that, also the Projecting All Voices Fellowship at Arizona State University. She is a 2017 recipient of the Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer in Eva Yaa Asantewaa’s Skeleton Architecture. She currently works inside of a self/spirit–directed thing called we free. we free looks at the millennial and post-millennial approach to liberation through its music, social dance, and social media. we free is centered in the livelihood and reparation of the African continent and diaspora. It is a social experiment, a conversation, a non-performance, a call to action, a revival, a bashment party, an ode to, and in moments, a critique of the present and emerging generations and what we are doing, right now, to be free.