Marguerite Hemmings
Marguerite Hemmings is a performer, movement artist, educator, and researcher based in Brooklyn, NY.
Biography
Hemmings is a Jamaican-American artist specializing in emergent, pop, social movement styles and technologies. They research the subversive and liberatory role of dance and music throughout the African Diaspora and channel this research through performance, body, text, social media, public media, and moving image.
Hemmings’ work is also embedded in alternative pedagogy and social practice having worked with various universities, afterschool programs, and community centers.
As a performer Hemmings has worked with many different artists, including Jawole WIlla Jo Zollar, Nora Chipaumire, Isabel Lewis, Will Rawls, and Jonathan Gonzalez. For their own work they have received grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Harlem Stage, University Settlement, Dancing While Black, Urban Bush Women’s Choreographic Center Initiative, Arizona State University’s Projecting All Voices Fellowship, Abrons Arts Center, Headlong Performance Institute, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Mural Arts, Black Spatial Relics, and Independence Public Media Foundation.
Hemmings is a visiting faculty member at Bennington in the BFA Dance Lab at Bennington for Fall 2026.