Who I am.
Jessica Roseman creates quiet, sensory experiences that invite breath, presence, and agency, the self-empowerment we feel when fully engaged.
It arises through designed spaces, open questions, and gestures that welcome self-reflection.
Jessica reconnects people with their body’s innate wisdom through thoughtful, strategic guidance.
She offers participatory experiences that move between performance and installation, solo gesture and group dialogue.
Each design reveals the meaningful, palpable insights we carry yet may not recognize, often obscured by the noise and numbness of modern life.
She is the founder and director of Nourish, an ongoing movement-based project rooted in Black feminist values of care, agency, and embodied liberation.
Nourish centers embodied experiences with intergenerational groups of mixed races, abilities, and movement knowledge through partnerships with Lexington Community Farm and Black mothers at the Cambridge Center for Families.
As Jessica says, “I’m not interested in entertaining the masses, but in building spaces where presence in embodied truth can help us come home to ourselves.”
This work is currently unfolding in Cambridge, where Jessica’s return marks a regrowth into community building through movement research.
What I do.
I create movement-based experiences that help people feel more at ease in their bodies. Sometimes it’s a solo performance. Sometimes it’s a workshop, a sensory installation, or a quiet set of gestures shared on a sidewalk. These moments are designed to center awareness, choice, and presence.
I work with movement, somatics, and participatory design to support agency, well-being, and belonging. My projects meet people where they are—on stages, in parks, in galleries, in bed or online—offering ways to notice, reflect, and respond with care.
I founded Nourish to share tools for restoration and self-inquiry with people excluded from dominant wellness spaces. I create practices that help each person sense themselves, trust their voice, and move with honesty.
My research asks:
How can movement teach us belonging?
How might it awaken compassion, both inward and outward?
What becomes possible when we stop striving and begin sensing?
If any of this resonates, I’d love to connect. Let’s move toward something together.
Professional
Bio
Jessica Roseman (she/her) is a choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, and researcher exploring movement as a portal to memory, belonging, and embodied well-being. Her work is rooted in the lived experiences of mothering, loss, and aging. Through solo performance and participatory practices, she brings forward unspoken stories of care, identity, and healing. She creates opportunities for people to sense, feel, and move in ways that support personal and collective change.
She founded Nourish, an award-winning somatic and public art project that offers restorative tools for well-being. Nourish invites people to listen deeply to their bodies and to ground themselves in relationship and place. Her 2024 residency at MASS MoCA supported the development of an immersive Nourish installation that bridged movement and visual art, performance and personal reflection.
As a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Design and Media at Northeastern University, Jessica researches how body-centered practices can generate agency through the nervous system. Drawing from the Feldenkrais® and GYROTONIC® Methods and her background as a licensed massage therapist, she studies how design can support access, wellness, and performance across public and artistic spaces.
Jessica performs, teaches, and lectures nationally. She is a New England States Touring Artist, Co-Curator for The Dance Complex’s annual programming, and mentor for both the Asian American Ballet Project and NACHMO Boston. Her recent residencies include Lexington Community Farm, Arrow Street Arts, Subcircle, Bearnstow, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She has collaborated with organizations including Now + There, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, ICA Boston, Global Arts Live, and Miami Light Project.
Her writing on Nourish will be published in two books in 2025. Jessica lives with her twin teens on unceded Massachusett and Pawtucket land, in what is now called Lexington, Massachusetts.