Jasmine Van Schouwen

Jasmine van Schouwen is a dance artist based in Gatineau, on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory, with over 18 years of experience performing in classical ballets and contemporary works. Her choreographic works have appeared in music videos, commercials, and small stages across the Outaouais region. Jasmine is the founder and Artistic Director of the Voices Dance Project, an interdisciplinary dance collective based in the National Capital Region. She also works as an independent dance artist, teacher and choreograoher. Her artistic discipline focuses on classical and modern ballet, floorwork, contemporary dance, and improvised dance.

Jasmine is passionate about exploring how different dance styles can come together to deconstruct style hierarchies and boundaries, and about using dance as a medium for developing deeper understanding of people and their stories. She is passionate about developing approaches and creative practices to democratize and de-colonize dance and to present it to audiences in unexpected contexts.

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Recent Projects

On Home (2025)
A one-hour danced journey at the border between the known and the unknown — a poetic odyssey where loss, longing, and rediscovery of home become movement material. Carried by a collective musical and choreographic creation, this interdisciplinary work weaves together stories of exile, grounding, and rebirth, questioning what remains of us when our bearings collapse.

Trailer At the Threshold of Home: https://youtu.be/Iy3FC8wDP2w
Learn more about At the Threshold of Home: https://www.fr-voicesdance.ca/spectacles-ant%C3%A9rieurs/au-seuil-du-chez-soi

Le travail (2024)
A gesture-based choreography performed to a recorded excerpt from The Need for Roots by Simone Weil, presented at the Avant-Première in Gatineau as part of the pre-production Toutes études confondues by the PenserDanser company. Raw and sensitive, yet at times tinged with absurd humor, this short gestural poem — almost caricatural — sought both to embrace and to parody Simone Weil’s concept of work as the spiritual center of human existence, using gestures that evoked the monotony and hardship of factory labor.
(My role: Choreography, performance)

On Home Installation (2024)
An interactive improvised dance installation created in collaboration with the other artists of the Voices Choreographic Project, accompanied by live music. The public was invited into the creative process, contributing words, stories, sketches, prose, and quotes about their relationship to home. These informed the dancers’ and musicians’ artistic exploration of the notions of home, displacement, and belonging.

Learn more about On Home: https://www.fr-voicesdance.ca/spectacles-ant%C3%A9rieurs/installation-on-home

Poetry in Motion (2023)
An electrifying hour where dance and poetry merge into a single breath. Fourteen choreographies born from collaborations between dancers and BIPOC and 2SLGBTQIA poets weave intimate narratives, where ballet, modern dance, Graham technique, and bellydance intertwine to give body to the words. Carried by a captivating original score, this moving fresco invites the audience to feel poetry in the heart of movement.

Trailer Poetry in Motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UOk9UoJxxo

Mycelium (2023)
A danced homage to the land and its contradictions — a vibrant solo where rootedness and uprooting mingle in a quest for a home that is both precious and under threat. Inspired by the shadow of pollution, the memory of a community, and the breath of local music, this fragile and fervent piece expresses the fight for clean air and water — an intimate cry to fully inhabit one’s land. The work is accompanied by homemade video archives, filmed in Abitibi-Témiscamingue between the 1960s and 1990s — fragments of a fragile past, suspended like memories that might be left behind, swept away by the breath of an evacuation or sudden departure.

Watch Mycelium: https://vimeo.com/859143797/a352b3d358?share=copy