ABOUT

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Rochelle Jamila

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I am a performer, dance maker, reproductive companion (doula), ethnobotanist and folk herbalist blossoming in the unceded lands of the Lenape and Canarsie people, also known as Brooklyn, NY. My work imagines liberation and pleasure through human and ecological fertility. I find inspiration in my upbringing along the Mississippi River’s banks, the wisdom of plants, and in the loud and quiet spaces where I learned love from and with women. I make dances exploring the psychic and somatic worlds of bleeding and birthing people and our connection to the earth. My work has been presented in Tennessee, New York, the Netherlands at venues such as Judson Church, Snug Harbor Botanical Garden, Triskelion Arts, The Buckman Theater, University of Amsterdam, and Center for Performance Research. I was a 2026 Oak Spring Garden Foundation Fellow, 2024 Resident at A Studio in the Woods, a recipient of Brooklyn Arts Council’s 2024 Creative Equations Cultural Heritage & Dance Fund, a 2021 Laundromat Project Create Change Artist-In-Residence and a 2025 Movement Research Van Lier Emerging Artist of Color Fellow. I have performed in works by Ebony Noelle Golden, Adia Whitaker, Jasmine Hearn, Reggie Wilson, and Beth Gill among others. From 2024-2026 I was a performer with Trisha Brown Dance Company. Currently, I am a member of Reggie Wilson Fist & Heel Performance Group.

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As a reproductive companion and wellness guide, I weave womb wisdom, movement, meditation, herbalism, and nourishing foodways to celebrate transitions from menarche to birth to postpartum. Womb care can radically attune us to our bodies and is an invaluable precursor to empowered birth, postpartum, parenthood, and communities. Rooting in legacies of southern Black midwives, wise women, and healers, I practice womb and birth care as a front line for liberation and planetary healing. After graduating from Columbia University with a B.A. in Dance and Women’s Gender, & Sexuality Studies, I followed the call to support my community as a doula. Since 2019, I have supported over 250 families through reproductive transitions, primarily as a menstrual health guide and postpartum doula. My care honors our bodies as extensions of the Earth, integrating medicinal and nourishing plants, hands on womb and body care, and yoga and mindfulness for reproductive vitality. I bring my experience as a dance artist and certified yoga and meditation instructor to my group and one-on-one work with women. It has been my pleasure to facilitate womb circles and classes in New York, Tennessee, and abroad.

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Photos: Justin Rocha (top), Ziggy Mack