Jessica Judd - Creatives In Place

Jessica Judd

Jessica Erin Judd is a dancer, choreographer, photographer, arts administrator, producer, and mother of two living and working in the greater Bay Area for over twenty years.

Trained in jazz, lyrical, hip hop, modern, and rhythm tap dance Jessica loves leaps, turns, and any dance that allows her to travel extensively about the stage.Since 2001 she has co-run the operations of Big Moves, a service and dance organization working to promote size-diversity in the world of dance.Jessica is the co-artistic director and a performing member of emFATic DANCE, Big Moves’ resident dance company.She feels extraordinarily fortunate to be working with so many talented, fun, and fabulous fat dancers who trust that it will all make sense in the end. Jessica’s photography focuses on nature, wildlife, and the great outdoors with an eye for the unseen and overlooked. Her work is shown a few times a year in local juried shows and competitions, and will be published in two photography books in 2020.In addition to her work with Big Moves and as a photographer, Jessica spent a number of years as a research/data analyst and project manager in the tech sector and is currently the Managing Director of Deborah Slater Dance Theater.Jessica enjoys being outside, traveling, cooking, live music, cats, and finding new and exciting ways of fighting fat hatred, promoting body liberation, and subverting heteronormativity.