Jasmine Rivers ' 24
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Jasmine Rivers ' 24
Dancer, Choreographer, Arts Administrator
Me in 50 words or less: asmine Rivers is a multiracial Filipina scholar, dancer, and choreographer from San Francisco, who grew up training with ODC and LINES ballet. Driven by interdisciplinary inquiry, she is a Medical Anthropology concentrator and Dance certificate student in Princeton’s class of 2024.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Department: Anthropology
Certificate(s): Dance
Student Group(s): BodyHype Dance Company
Bio Jasmine Rivers is a multiracial, hapa Filipina anthropologist, dancer, and choreographer from San Francisco. She grew up training with ODC and LINES ballet, and guest performed with ODC’s professional company in 2019. Her approach to dance, choreography, and somatic experiences is inextricably linked to her multiraciality; in embodying dual legacies of both marginalization and privilege, her artistic process embraces contradiction, interdisciplinary inquiry, and critically anti-dichotomous questioning. Her mission is to visibilize the simultaneous existence of seemingly paradoxical realities, and her movement style and choreographic intuition are characterized by contrasting dynamics, juxtaposed textures, and playing with the extremes of stillness and chaos.
Driven by interdisciplinary inquiry, Jasmine is a Medical Anthropology concentrator and Dance certificate student in Princeton’s class of 2024. She is deeply passionate about furthering culturally-informed, community-centered, and anti-oppressive approaches to healthcare, as well as exploring the intersections of medicine and dance by studying embodied healing practices. She believes in the body as a valid site of knowledge production, and is interested in movement-based approaches to healing intergenerational trauma.
Jasmine has served as an Anti-Racist Teach-In Leader and Student Advisor at Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts, a Writing Fellow at Princeton’s Writing Center, a Marketing and Program Development Intern for multiple different companies, and the President of Princeton’s BodyHype Dance Company. She is interested in pursuing possible career paths in dance performance/choreography, arts administration, dance movement therapy, and more.
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