About Jessica Wolf
Jessica Wolf has been working with bodies in diverse communities since 1997. She is a hip hop dancer, choreographer and teacher. She is also a somaticist, life coach, yoga teacher, and massage therapist incorporating touch, sound vibration, tuning forks and essential oils. In all modalities, Jessica concentrates on holding space catered to her students’ and clients' individual and collective needs and goals. Personal inquiry, narrative, breath and movement inspire her when working with both individuals and groups.
Jessica began her performance career with Culture Shock SF/Oakland and continued dancing off Broadway at the New York Hip Hop Theater Festival and in Europe with one of the first hip hop theater performances, BeatBox: A Raparetta. As the director of RHYTHM, an all female dance collective, Jessica and her company opened for hip hop legends KRS-ONE and Medusa.
She is blessed to have trained with the founders and creators of hip hop dance – Electric Boogaloos, members of the Rock Steady Crew, Demons of the Mind and Don ‘Campbellock’ Campbell, Rennie Harris, members of the Renegade Rockers, Playboyz Inc., and many other great teachers. Jessica founded and directed the Hip Hop Dance Program at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center for 13 years. She is the founder, curator, director and co-faciliator of the Hip Hop Dance In Motion Intensive and dance program, currently facilitated at Shotgun Studios, Berkeley and throughout the Bay Area.
Jessica has a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Somatics from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and a Bachelors in Humanities with an emphasis in Experimental Performance from the New College of California. She is certified in massage therapy by the Institute of Conscious Body Works, Alive & Well, Marin County. She also completed a 200-hour Teacher Training Certification in Anusara Yoga (Immersion, Teacher Training, Therapeutics).