Artist Roster

Marion Yager Hamermesh of Wilmington, DE is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer. She earned a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Beloit College, an M.Ed. in Dance from Temple University, an M.S.E. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.J.S. from Gratz College.

Currently, she teaches dance to people living with Parkinsons' Disease - on line and in person.

As a proud member of Sharing our Legacy Dance Theatre (https://www.sharingourlegacy.org/) she has contributed choreography to three works - Women of Consequence (2018); Mary Ann Shadd Cary (2019) and The Artistry and Activism of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (2025-26). She has been a teaching member of the Hanover Dance Collective for 40 years. She is a board certified chaplain and worked for a hospice supporting people (and their families) at the end of their lives. In 1987, she founded the Delaware Children's Museum which she directed until 1995.

Throughout these activities, she has engaged with the power of narrative especially that which can be found between the lines.

Although the Constitution is not quite 250 this year, it is the framework for carrying out the purposes of the Declaration of Independence.  I will set a spoken word/movement piece using the words of the Preamble to the constitution.  The group can be as small as 6 people or as large as you've got. People do not have to have any experience with dance. I will lead the participants in a process to create  the core of the movements  so these can be simple and pedestrian or complex dance moves.  To work with the group to create the movement and to set and rehearse it, I will need  2 - 3 hours depending on the size of the group and their experience. and how much studying of the text we want to include in the process.  The final piece can be performed in a studio, on stage, or in the street - perhaps as a flash mob.