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Jasmyn Fyffe | August 19, 2015

When Jasmyn sits with me to talk about her art and life, there's enough spare energy to power every appliance within a dozen feet of us. Here's an artist who is laser focused on continuing to build her career in dance, not as a side project, but a full time occupation. But when it comes to the topic of gender, skin colour and race definitions, she's especially animated. She finds the idea of being boxed inside rigid categories to be especially repugnant. And while she's mindful of her heritage (Barbados), and at times incorporates it into her work, she's also adamant that pre conceived ideas around what "black women" should be like or do, especially in the world of dance, is counterproductive or worse.