Rochelle Jamila is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist, dancer, and womb/birth worker hailing from Memphis, Tennessee. She began her dance career at Classical Ballet Memphis under Pat Gillespie and Katie Smythe’s New Ballet Ensemble. While attending Phillips Academy Andover, Jamila studied modern and postmodern dance with Judith Wombwell and Erin Strong. Jamila graduated from Columbia University in 2017 with a B. A. in Dance and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies. While attending Columbia, she performed works by Joanna Kotze, Alexandra Beller and Colleen Thomas, and began to work on her own choreographies. Jamila has notably worked with Ebony Noelle Golden, Ogemdi Ude, Jasmine Hearn, Jodi Melnick, Beth Gill, Maria Bauman and Reggie Wilson, among others. Jamila’s choreographic practice imagines liberation inspired by Nature’s cycles, folk practices of the African diaspora and the physical and psychic realms of women/bleeding people and has been presented in Tennessee, New York and the Netherlands. Her work has been shown at Judson Church, Snug Harbor Botanic Garden, Triskelion Arts, The Buckman Theater and University of Amsterdam. Rochelle joined the Trisha Brown Dance Company for the 2024/2025 season.
As of: December 2024