Education
2004 – 2008 Columbia University; BA in Urban Studies and Education
Spring 2007 School of International Training: Education and Social Change in Chile and Argentina
Somatic, performance, and dance training
February 2021-June 2021 Headlong Performance Institute
May 2020-May 2021 Rootwork Herbals: The People’s Medicine School
2015-2016 Urban Bush Women Apprenticeship Program
Summer 2014: Ecole des Sables, Toubab Dialaw, Senegal Intersections between Hip Hop and African Dance
Spring 2011: R.Evolucion Latina Beyond Series
2009-2015: Rennie Harris PureMovement, Broadway Dance Center, Peridance
Current and past institution/company/collective affiliations
2018-present: University of the Arts School of Dance (Associate Adjunct Professor)
2023: Mural Arts Porchlight Project (Lead Artist)
2014-2023: Dancing While Black (Fellow, 10th Anniversary co-leader)
2011-2023: Urban Bush Women (Fellow, Performer)
2016-2018: Collective Movements (Co-Director with Andrew Jungclaus)
2012-2016: New York Youth Movement Collaborative (Co-Director with Ehizoje Azeke)
2011-2017: University Settlement (Teaching Artist and Program Director)
2004-2008: Onyx Dance Troupe (Artistic Director)
Awards and recognitions
2023: Black Spatial Relics 2023 Artist in Residence
2023: Independence Public Media Foundation Grant Recipient
June 2023: The Yard / Headlong Dance Theater Company Launch Pad Artist in Residence
2022 : Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grant Recipient
2020-2021: Abrons Arts Center Social Practice Artist in Residence
2017-2019 and 2022-2023: Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center 1.0 and 2.0 Fellow
2018-2019: ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts Artist in Residence
Spring 2017: Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist in Residence
Fall 2017: Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer in Skeleton Architecture
Fall 2017: Bessie nomination for Outstanding Performer for we free
Complete list of choreography and performance repertoire
Our Land, Our Movement —- choreographer, Mural Arts, multiple locations, September 2023
xxJAMxx with angel edwards and Jonathan González— co-choreographer and performer, Cannonball at Fringe Festival, September 2023
Make Ready Again with Anise Hines and Coley Curry — co-choreographer and performer, The Yard, Martha’s Vineyard, June 2023
ShebeenDUB; choreographer Nora Chipaumire — performer, Dance Umbrella, London, October 2022
Practice; choreographer Jonathan Gonzalez — performer, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, River to River Festival, June 2022
cypher practices/free code — choreographer, University of the Arts, multiple location, September-October 2020
the third thing — choreographer, University of the Arts, YGym, Philadelphia; December 2019
Virginia Grise’s Staging of Their Dogs Came With Them at Perryville Women’s Prison — choreographer, April 2019
We free lab — choreographer, Arizona State University; April 2019
Harlem Renaissance — Identity: Freedom at The Kitchen, performed with J’Royce Jata, NYC; March 2019
trust mode — choreographer, University of the Arts, Solmssen Hall, Philadelphia; December 2018
Mapps — choreographer, Princeton University and University of the Arts; 2018
we free lab — choreographer,The Kitchen, NYC; July 2018
It’s Showtime NYC — choreographer, River to River, Federal Hall, NYC; June 2018
Zero; choreographer Jonathan Gonzalez — performer, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church; Spring 2018
we free — choreographer and performer, New York Live Arts, NYC; April 2018
we free lab — choreographer and performer, Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYC; February 2018
we free — choreographer and performer, Junebug Productions at Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; July 2017
What Remains; choreographer Will Rawls and collaborator Claudia Rankine and Homi Bhaba — performer, Bard College, NY; Spring 2017
we free and collaborators — choreographer and performer, Gibney Dance, NYC; February 2017
to make ready again — choreographer and performer, JACK Theater; February 2017
Vessels; directors Rebecca Mwase and Ron Ragin — performer, Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans; 2016-2017
Skeleton Architecture; curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa — performer, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, NYC; Fall 2016
catch the beat with Arielle Rosales — choreographer and performer, Movement Research at Judson Church, NYC; October 2016
MTV Video Music Awards , Rihanna — performer, Madison Square Garden; August 2016
we free — choreographer and performer, BRIC Arts Media, NYC; July 2016
burnin’ and a-lootin with Daniel Woods — choreographer and performer, Food for Thought at Danspace, St. Mark’s Church, NYC; April 2016
you owe me — choreographer and performer, Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Arts Exchange, NYC; February and March 2016
Echo::System ; choreographer Grisha Coleman — performer, Yerba Buena, San Francisco; 2015-2016
we free — choreographer and performer, Double Plus at Gibney Dance, NYC; December 2015
bam bam — choreographer and performer, NYMC at Nuyorican Poets Cafe, NYC; January 2014
Visible ; choreographers Nora Chipaumire and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar — performer, 5 different U.S. Cities; 2011-2013
no, no, no — choreographer and performer, International Charles Town Maroon Conference and Festival; Portland, Jamaica, Spring 2013
XYZ — choreographer and performer, E-Moves at Harlem Stage, NYC; April 2011
Let Me Talk to You — choreographer and performer, E-Moves at Harlem Stage, NYC; April 2010
What is Love — choreographer and performer, DanceNOW Raw Festival at Dance Theater Workshop, NYC; April 2009
Infiltrate — choreographer and performer, Sybarite Love is Love Showcase; June 2008
Short Films and Video
Antidote — co-directed with LaJuné McMillian, premiered in live-stream with Abrons Arts Center; December 2020
Finding Life on Earth — co-directed with Erick Boustead; premiered in live-stream with LineBreak Media; Spring 2020
Show Me music video by Common feat. Jill Scott and Samora Pinderhughes — movement director, August 2019
Suns Set and Burnin’ and a lootin’ — videography and co-direction by Nicole Curry; Summer 2019
Blacker the Berry — videography and co-editing by Bleue Liverpool and Daniel Curry; shown at University Settlement Performance Project, Speyer Hall; May 2015-October 2015
Exhibitions
Antidote with LaJuné McMillian — Womxn in Windows, American Gurl, Los Angeles, June-August 2023
Light Escapes with Marsha Hemmings —- Trophallaxis Study Group at Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA, October-December 2022
Writing/multimedia publications
“A System’s Analysis” with Lai Yi Ohlsen and Jonathan González; Issue 57 of the Movement Research Performance Journal (MRPJ) https://www.dropbox.com/s/fe0j1tbmg0oex8p/MRPJ57_EditorsLetter.pdf?dl=0
“Antidote” is an online environment and land acknowledgment that gives the “land” back to black freedom realities. — By Salome Asega, Marguerite Hemmings, LaJuné McMillian, and Amber Starks; Pioneer Works: The Broadcast; February 2021
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/antidote-margeurite-hemmings-lajune-mcmillian/
Choreography of Circulation — Interviewed by Lai Yi Ohlsen; Pioneer Works :The Broadcast; December 2020
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/lai-yi-ohlsen-marguerite-hemmings-choreography-of-circulatio/
‘Curating the Vibe and the White Space-is Project’ — Dancing While Black Digital Journal; April 2019
‘To the Study of the Moment: we free, traps and other philosophies’ — Choreographic Center Initiative Journal; September 2017
http://www.urbanbushwomencenter.org/voicesfromthebush/2017/9/5/ozspvjv1zjv0vxs2qmes2nfl3nhvpx
Convenings and Gatherings: A Conversation with Marguerite Hemmings by Tara Aisha Willis; Voices from the Bush; September 2016
Teaching and Syllabi Development
Dancehall and Freedom; we freestyle; and Trap as the New Negro Spiritual; Florida State University; March 2020
Applied Dance Practices of the African Diaspora; Arizona State University; Spring 2019
Activism, Social Justice, and Choreography; University of the Arts; Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
Improvisation to Choreography; University of the Arts; Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021