sense, feel, move, better …
equitably.
Jess Roseman is an interdisciplinary choreographer and movement educator who draws upon a half century of experience. She creates movement designs to inspire herself and others - both for performance and for wellness purposes.
Image Credit: Mel Taing
Events
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Past Events
New Bedford Art Museum,
October, 2023
Oct 7 - Mar 22, 2023
NEW FORMATIONS Interpretive Voices
Audio Tour
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
51 Sandy Pond Road Lincoln, MA
By scanning the QR code with your phone camera, you'll be able to access Jess Roseman’s audio commentary in relation to artworks in the New Formations exhibit.
Through contemporary photography, video, and painting, this exhibition features human bodies in powerful athletic performance, ecstatic expressions of dance and collective procession. These artworks suggest our need for rituals, ways of gathering, and performing for ourselves and one another. With actions drawn from dance, sportsmanship, and pageantry, New Formations explores modes of kinship, alliance, and competition. Artworks on view convey disparities across race, age, and gender that shape how our bodies move through the world and are seen by others.
August 16 | 6pm 2022
NOURISH @ FANEUIL HALL:
A PUBLIC DANCE TO FEED YOUR SENSES
Summer Sets at 6 Faneuil Hall Square Boston, MA, 02109 United States
PRESENTED BY NOW + THERE
Jess will perform a NOURISH restorative dance in Faneuil Hall, a historic public site, as part of a monthlong installation by Juan Obando.
YOU are invited to claim your place and focus on your mind and body while you discover exactly how you want to move.
NOURISH is open to all ages, levels of experience, and is adaptable to your abilities.
Wear secure shoes and comfortable clothing.
Summer Sets by Juan Obando compels us to reconfigure our shared space and turn alternative perspectives into objects that honor our collective legacy. Produced by Now + There for Dock Square in Faneuil Hall, this site-specific installation intentionally directs the public’s gaze toward a screen, projecting imagination, hope, and deeper care onto the built environment we claim and construct. Playful and provoking, Summer Sets offers a look at the future of cityscapes while historic statutes still stand, therefore simulating a new world at the present and past moment, inviting us to imagine and model alternative perspectives for monuments and public space.
Follow along as the project unfolds #SummerSetsBOS
May 31 | 7pm
LIVE PERFORMANCE
Jessica performs her new solo, “Surrender”.
In the dance, she explores hot flashes as a super power that opens portals to other universes!
On a shared program with choreographers Caitlin Canty and Catherine Siller.
This work has been supported by a Somerville Arts Council ArtAssembled Residency fellowship.
Somerville Center for the Arts at the Armory 191 Highland Avenue Somerville, MA 02143
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May 14 | 7pm
M
alden Dance Mile
Grab a blanket or lawn chair, some snacks, and come join us to see some dance!
The Malden Dance Mile is an annual interactive movement adventure in Malden, MA. This year's event will bring together artists from Malden, all across New England, and even from London! Join us for TWO DAYS of movement adventures on
Friday, May 13th & Saturday, May 14th
Events include dance films, workshops, live performances, and more!
Jess premieres the first draft NOURISH film essay, edited by Olivia Moon
After 7pm in the plaza behind City Hall at
215 Pleasant St, Malden, MA
NOURISH Film was made possible by a commission from Monkeyhouse; with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice program, with funding from the Barr Foundation; the Cambridge Arts’ 2022 Art for Social Justice Grant, and the 2021 Art for Racial Justice Grant, through the Cambridge Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council; by the Cambridge Community Foundation’s Cultural Capital Fund; the Sister Outsider Relief Grant from the Free Black Women’s Library; by grants from the Lexington Cultural Council and Arlington Cultural Council, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council; with support by a grant from the Combined Jewish Philanthropies Arts & Culture Community Impact Grant Fund; and with donations from Zuri.
April 30 | 1:30-3:30pm
I’M ON FIRE: SURRENDER AT SOMERVILLE OPEN STUDIOS.
Come visit me! I’m making a new dance about hot flashes as a superpower, and mangoes. Let’s talk about food, hormones, and science fiction. Tell me about your favorite fruit and your secret superpower!
We will eat mangoes (my favorite fruit) and chat about sweat, inspiration, and art. Light refreshments will be served.
3rd Floor ArtAssembled Studio, Somerville Armory 191 Highland Avenue Somerville, MA 02143
Olivia Moon Photography / Half Asian Lens
April 27 | 6-7pm
REFLECTION, HEALING & MOVEMENT
a workshop designed to ease your body & mind
Olivia Moon Photography / Half Asian Lens
March 19 | 8pm
PARADISE IS NOW at ICA BOSTON
Jess performed a new solo, “Paradise Is Now”, presented by New England Foundation for the Arts Regional Dance Development Initiative: New England Now Dance Platform, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, & Global Arts Live.
Promotional video for the Regional Dance Development Initiative: New England Now, featuring 18 Choreographers from the region.