Monkeyhouse, a 501(c)3 organization, is proud to fiscally sponsor Jessica Roseman. Any donations made on this page will be tax deductible.
Jessica Roseman is an 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 improvisational duets.
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 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.
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 improvisational duets.
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 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.
Photo on left by Olivia Moon Photography
