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Jessica Baynes

Dance performer, choreographer, and educator (Harvard Ed.M., founder of Healing in Motion Dance) featured on Project Zero's PZ Radio podcast.

Sep 20, 2026

17:07
And then we also had a kind of a series of like specialized exercises and prompts that Jess led, which was connected to creative movement and connecting with different contemporary art practices.
17:20
Yeah.
17:21
I really wanted to have the teachers experience what a traditional creative movement classroom might be like for a preschool or early childhood education setting.
17:32
But also informed by what a lot of contemporary performance artists use when they're creating choreography.
17:39
So for reference, creative movement typically refers to improvisational classes that utilize choreography-based prompts to generate movement material.
17:50
So In these spaces, there's typically no right or wrong answer.
17:55
There's only pursuit of the prompt that is given.
20:33
Yeah,

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