JESSICA BRIGGS

Jessica Briggs has trained in dance since childhood in Ballet, Tap and Jazz.  During her teens she began training in Modern dance and soon found herself performing with Vox Medusa Dance Company.  Jessica is a graduate of Heartbeat Studio’s Pedagogy Program and has taught youth classes since 2000.  Jessica’s professional training includes classes with the likes of Kristin Freya, Savion Glover, Dianne Walker, Robert Reed, Barbara Duffy, Deborah Leamy (Fosse), Maureen Mansfield (Paul Taylor Dance Company), Jazzcotech (London) and more.  Jessica  performed in Vox Medusa’s pieces Seven andCounting, Lucretia’s Awakening, No Antidote, Shallow Heart, Sirens, Cleopatra: AmbitiousChild, and was a featured dancer as the Air Goddess in Transcendance.  Jessica feels that of all the things she has experienced in life, teaching dance has been the most rewarding and fulfilling and couldn’t ask for better happiness than the warmth and love she gets from her students.