Jasmine Powell is a dance artist of the community from Hillsborough, NC.  Locally trained, her performance career began with Durham’s Collage Dance Company, then moved to Dance Diaspora and Philadanco where she studied, performed, and choreographed original work. She continued exploring art and its meaning with a BA from Oberlin College, an MFA from Hollins University in collaboration with the American Dance Festival, and Frankfurt University for Music and Performing Arts.  Jasmine enjoys the pleasure of having performed original work by Dianne McIntyre, Milton Myers, Ronald K. Brown, KT Niehoff, and more. As an artist surrounding herself with the creation of visual and choreographic art, Jasmine does not exclude the art of nature, culture, teaching, learning, and listening. Currently, she is on Faculty at Elon University where she brings cultural history into the dance curriculum with multiple forms. She is currently a dancer with KT COLLECTIVE as well as COMPANY and creates her own aesthetic choreography locally and regionally with performances and workshops. As research inquiries fuel her passions, Jasmine is thankful to have learned the value in exploring the organic movement of the body’s personal story and is investigating genre-crossing dance as the inquiry to how opposite embodied features reside in each other.