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Jessica Roseman Dance is directed and operated by Jess Roseman, award winning choreographer, movement educator, and a mother who helps people to sense, feel, and move better, equitably. Her community-based dance projects instill social change by inviting deeper physical connections to our selves, each other, and our environment. She incorporates healing arts philosophies into her improvisational choreography.
Jessica’ sensual dances border on the humorous and awkward, but connect to a grounded, humanistic approach to dancing in a maturing body. Her recent work considers intimate, personal relationships between memory and the present, and her body and her audience. She senses and expresses the right action for the moment. Roseman’s dances play with the cultural tension, ever present in New England (land of monosyllabic conversations and dramatic weather), between stoicism and expressiveness.
Current repertory includes solos, dance films, and interactive installations.
Since June, 2020, Jessica has been developing the multiyear NOURISH Project, offering Covid-friendly dance engagements - both participatory and solo performances.
Jessica adapts NOURISH engagements for each environment and population. NOURISH has been taught outdoors on her local organic community farm, with intergenerational neighborhood families, in homes over Zoom with Black mothers, and in dance studios with with small masked groups of professional dancers and non-movers alike. NOURISH creative content includes a dance film essay, and live solo performance in addition to participatory sessions. Fees are negotiable relative to circumstances.
Jess was appointed to NEFA’s Regional Dance Development Initiative (RDDI) cohort to help build sustainable choreographic landscapes in New England. She has been an Artist in Residence at MASS MoCA, Lexington Community Farm, The Dance Complex at Canal, Subcircle, Bearnstow, Atlanta Center for the Arts, and Somerville’s Art Assembled. Additionally, Jess has served as a mentor through the Network of Arts Administrators of Color, and has been a curator and grants reviewer for several local and regional arts grants.
A New England States Touring Artist, Jessica performs, teaches, mentors, and lectures nationally.
Additional Content:
NEFA's Regional Dance Development Initiative: New England Now
About the Regional Dance Development Initiative Artist cohort program, of which I am a proud participant
"Choreographing the Personal: A Profile of Jessica Roseman" - Boston Art Review published a featured profile about my choreographic process by Ilya Vidrin, in Rooting, Issue 07, December, 2021
Artist Talk with karen Krolak on Vimeo
Jessica Roseman talks in depth about her NOURISH project. Artist Talk - December 2021 - A 30 minute interview by karen Krolak, Co-Artistic Director of Monkeyhouse, presented by Monkeyhouse on YouTube
Lexington Colonial Times article: NOURISH at LexFarm Press
An Interview by Mary Rose Scozzafava about my Artist Residency at LexFarm for NOURISH, July, 2021
NEFA Website on Curation with RDDI New England Now Cohort
I'm so proud to have co-curated other wonderful choreographers from the region for our performance platform at the ICA.
Jewish Boston article: Local Creatives Receive Grants From CJP To Elevate the Arts
Combined Jewish Philanthropies granted me funds to edit my NOURISH film, and produce a panel talk this summer about Jewish culture, social justice, and dance
Buzz Duet at The Dance Complex on Vimeo
Buzz: An Improvised Duet for Dance and Saxophone with Jorrit Dijkstra - Presented by the Dance Complex in Ten Tiny Dances®, Cambridge, MA September 14, 2019 Exemplifies choreographic adaptability.
Buzz Duet at Constellation, Chicago on Vimeo
Buzz: An Improvised Duet for Dance and Saxophone with Jorrit Dijkstra - Performed at The Constellation, Chicago, May 24, 2019. Touring!
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Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship
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2017
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