Memory Fleet: Beloved, Let’s Cross encompasses a series of performances, a shared embodied practice, an evolving installation of archival materials, an expanding digital archive, and a body of original sound, text, and recipes — all celebrating the stories, dances, and gestures passed on through intergenerational lineages.

Jasmine Hearn’s (2022 Creative Capital Awardee) Memory Fleet project began in 2014 with the creation of the interdisciplinary dance theater piece, Memory Keep(H)er with their grandmother. This performance was later made into a short film series — both iterations act as an alternative archive that listens and preserves the grandmother’s story of growing up in rural Texas in the 1940’s. Over a decade, the duet has expanded into the interdisciplinary project, which premiered in Houston, TX April 2024 with a site-specific installation and ensemble production – Memory Fleet: A Return to Matr was co-presented by DiverseWorks and Houston MET Dance.

Jasmine Hearn maps a dance of lessons with performance collaborators; Nora Alami, Maria Bauman, Melanie George, Dominica Greene, Jenna Hearn, Jennifer Newsom, Pamela Pietro, Angie Pittman, Kendra Portier, jhon r. stronks, Wayne Smith, Myssi Robinson, Charmaine Warren, and Tara Aisha Willis with additional sonic collaboration by Jo Stewart and Ashley Teamer.