Who I Am
Jessica Roseman creates quiet, sensory experiences that invite breath, presence, and agency, the self-empowerment that comes from being fully engaged. Her work unfolds through designed spaces, open questions, and gestures that welcome self-reflection. She reconnects people with their body’s innate wisdom through participatory experiences that move between performance and installation, solo gesture and group dialogue.
Jessica is the founder and director of Nourish, a 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 local partnerships such as Lexington Community Farm and with Black mothers at the Cambridge Center for Families.
“I’m not interested in entertaining the masses,” Jessica says, “but in building spaces where embodied truth can help us come home to ourselves.”
What I Do
I create movement-based experiences that help people feel at ease in their bodies. Sometimes it is a solo performance. Sometimes it is a workshop, a sensory installation, or a quiet set of gestures shared on a sidewalk. Each moment is 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, inward and outward?
What becomes possible when we stop striving and begin sensing?
If this resonates, I would love to connect. Let’s move toward something together.
