Threading residency
Our other pilot program, the Threading residency, honors the late Georgiana Pickett, a pioneer and steadfast contributor to the arts’ scene in New York. Through an annual nomination process, we recognize artists who are pushing boundaries and whose work is deeply rooted in rigorous movement-based practice or in live performance. The goal of this program is to support artists who are not based in New York City; through this residency program, the artists stay in NYC for three to four weeks while developing a specific project. Travel, housing, studio space, and a daily living stipend are provided. We selected Djibril Sall as the 2025 Threading resident.
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Djibril Sall, is a queer Senegalese performer, choreographer, and writer. Born in Dakar, he grew up in a working-class family in the Deep South of the United States of America and was educated at the ‘elite’ Wesleyan University. He describes himself in these terms to illustrate the range of privilege he holds as someone who worked from the peripheries of the Global South to someone who can now move unencumbered within and outside of the borders of the Global North. His work is situated at the intersection of (racialized) migration and belonging, where he questions the reasons that compel people to leave.
Djibril was selected for inclusion in Tanz im August’s Interconnecting Ecology and Dance Series in 2023 and was furthermore an invited artist for Tanznacht’s 25-year anniversary. His most recent evening-length work, evening.haiku, premiered at Sophiensaele as a part of the 31st Tanztage Festival and was chosen for inclusion in the 2022 [8:Tension] Young Choreographers Series at ImPulsTanz International Vienna Dance Festival. Djibril has presented his own work and collaborations at SAVVY Contemporary and radialsystem in Berlin and in various international festivals and institutions including Stedelijk, DARK MOFO, Centre Pompidou, Mumok and Dansens Hus. He was the 2024 Berlin Cultural Exchange Fellow at Cite International des Arts in Paris and the inaugural resident at Emerging Change Festival where he worked on a new solo premiering at Sophiensaele in 2025.
During the residency, Sall plans to continue developing his next solo piece in collaboration with experimental musician YATTA.
alumni
2024 Threading resident, Jasmine Hearn
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Jasmine Hearn, born and raised on occupied lands now known as Houston, TX, studied dance and embodied sound from a multitude of teachers, including their sister, cousins, aunties, instructors, and friends at family gatherings, church services, and weekly classes at the Houston Metropolitan Dance Center. Jasmine has been greatly influenced by teachers, mentors, and collaborators, including Byronné J Hearn, Claudette Nickens Johnson, Joy KMT, Barbara Mahler, Pamela Pietro, Kendra Portier, Samita Sinha, Sandra Organ Solis, jhon r. stronks, Sherie van den Wijngaard, Charmaine Warren, Marýa Wethers, Bennalldre Williams, Marlies Yearby, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Hearn received a B.A. in Dance from Point Park University.
They are a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2023), Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design with collaborator Athena Kokoronis of Domestic Performance Agency (2023), a Creative Capital Award (2022), New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards for Outstanding Performer (2021, 2017), a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019), and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants (2022, 2017). They have been awarded residencies through Movement Research, New York, NY; Pittsburgh Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA; and the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France.
Jasmine has creatively collaborated with artists, Solange Knowles, Alisha B. Wormsley, Vanessa German, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Maria Bauman, Lovie Olivia, Ayanah Moor, Sandra Organ Solis, Holly Bass, Li Harris, and companies, Urban Bush Women, David Dorfman Dance, and Helen Simoneau Danse, which have produced solo and collective dance choreography for performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Live Arts, the Guggenheim Museum, the Getty Center, the 2019 Venice Biennale, the Ford Foundation, Danspace Project, BAAD!, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, and other internationally acclaimed art spaces such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Jasmine is committed to performance as an expansive practice that includes a spectrum of dance traditions and techniques, technologies of care, sound design, garment design, and the archiving of matrilineal memories. They give gratitude to Spirit, their mothers and aunties, and all the mothering Black people who have supported their moving, traveling, remembering body.