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Jessica Batha

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Jessica Batha

As a dance artist and embodiment researcher, my work investigates the profound relationships between elements of the natural world—light, sound, and spatial configuration—and their resonance within the human experience. Through these interactions, I seek to illuminate sensations of interconnectivity between the individual, the earth, and the collective body.

My practice invites participants into multisensory somatic experiences that encourage attunement to the convergence of environmental elements and self-actualization. The integration of research and critical inquiry carries my curiosity beyond gesture, form, and movement phrase, while my teaching practice infuses my choreographic voice with clarity, intelligence, and delight. By revealing aspects of my most deeply embodied self, I invite audiences into an active relationship with the work, where simple interactions allow them to contribute to and shape the performance experience.

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Jessica Batha holds a BFA and BS from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, an MAT from Fairleigh Dickinson University, a Certificate in Mind/Body Medicine from Saybrook University, and is currently completing her MFA in Dance at Saint Mary’s College. She is a dynamic faculty member at East Stroudsburg University, where she draws on multiple modalities and years of embodied experience to cultivate intelligent, resilient bodies that love to move and engage deeply with their own embodiment.

Rooted in a passion for dance, somatic practice, wellness, and education, Jessica weaves together her work as a Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT), 500-hour ERYT yoga practitioner, and Master Health and Wellness Coach through the American Health and Fitness Association (ASFA). This unique interdisciplinary foundation informs her company, Adora LLC, which supports individuals in reconnecting with the light that shines from within, fostering healing, balance, and the capacity to move through the world as their most grounded and vibrant selves..

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somatic movement specialist

Explores the body through experiential practice, guiding others toward deeper awareness and embodied clarity.

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choreographic researcher

Investigates movement as an expressive and cultural inquiry, studying how ideas take shape through the body.

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Lecturer in Dance

Teaches technique and creative process in a university setting, fostering thoughtful, inquisitive dancers.

Massage Therapy

Each therapy session is offered as a holistic somatic bodywork experience, integrating massage modalities such as deep tissue, Swedish, sports, Thai, and Reiki. Together, these modalities attune to your body’s signals in the moment, allowing your specific needs to guide the work as it unfolds.

Sessions are thoughtfully customized to support relaxation, restoration, and embodied awareness, inviting you to reconnect with your inner light through skilled touch, presence, and care.

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Contact

Every meaningful exchange begins with a small act of contact: a pause, a curiosity, a shared breath, a subtle noticing. In my work, connection begins long before words, through sensation, presence, and attunement.

Each person arrives with a distinct rhythm shaped by memory, imagination, and lived experience.

This is a space where those rhythms are welcomed, listened to, and allowed to unfold.

Making contact for an appointment is an invitation into an ongoing conversation,one grounded in care, curiosity, and the possibility of movement toward healing and clarity.

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14 Christine Lane

Bangor PA 18013

By Appointment Only

732-310-6139

jessica_batha@yahoo.com

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Jessica BAtha