Photo by Gretchen LeMaistre
Jessica Roseman incorporates healing arts philosophies into her improvisational choreography. Sensing and expressing the right action for the moment guides her work. Jessica recently came out of dance retirement to reclaim embodied performance anew. She studied Dance and African American Studies with Honors at Wesleyan. Jessica’s solo choreography has been presented by: Miami Light Project, Wesleyan University, The Dance Complex, NACHMO Boston, The Field, and Teatro Palo Alto. She danced professionally in New York in the 90’s, cofounding Prowess, a downtown dance collective for women of color. In Miami, she toured internationally with improvisational company Mary Street Dance Theatre. She has performed with Bebe Miller, Clarinda Mac Low, and Headlong Dance Theater, among others. She was honored with an Associate Artist Residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts to work with Deborah Hay. She was selected for the Cambridge Dance Complex aMaSSiT Residency in 2019. Jessica has been collaborating with composer/musician Jorrit Dijkstra in Buzz: Improvisational Duets for Dance and Saxophone since 2017, which was presented by Wesleyan University, Constellation in Chicago, Dance Complex, Driff Music Festival, and Somerville Arts Council. She has 10 year old son and daughter twins, and practices therapeutic massage and the Feldenkrais Method.
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