CCI ALUM SUPPORTED ARTIST/PROJECT

Marguerite Angelica Monique Hemmings is a Jamaican-born, Jersey-raised, NYC-made performance artist/educator currently based in Philadelphia, USA. They focus on one's own body, one's own way of moving, adapting, healing, releasing, protecting, changing, and connecting to the unseen. They are a master of body ceremonies and a curator of vibes.

As a choreographer, they specialize in emergent, improvisational and social dance movement styles and technologies, rooted in the story of the African Diaspora. They are researching the ancestral and subversive role of dance and the dancer throughout the African Diaspora and look to conjure these technologies through all of their (present) work. Marguerite uses body, text, media, and moving images in their work.

They direct a multimedia endeavor called we free, which looks at the millennial and gen z approach to liberation through its music, social dance, and social media.