Community Engagement
Healing in Motion Dance
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Baynes holds her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Modern Dance, and teaches all age groups and levels of:
modern dance
contemporary dance
creative movement
improvisation
composition/choreography
Jessica taught Advanced Modern Dance Technique & Improvisation at Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) and currently teaches Modern technique to all Ballet West Trainees and contemporary technique to all of Ballet West’s Professional Training Division students.
Movement Exchange
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Baynes holds her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Modern Dance, and teaches all age groups and levels of:
modern dance
contemporary dance
creative movement
improvisation
composition/choreography
Jessica taught Advanced Modern Dance Technique & Improvisation at Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) and currently teaches Modern technique to all Ballet West Trainees and contemporary technique to all of Ballet West’s Professional Training Division students.
Primary Children’s Hospital
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Baynes has taught all levels of ballet technique for a variety of ballet-focused institutions. Currently, Jessica teaches weekly adult ballet classes at Ballet West in downtown Salt Lake City, UT.
Senior Steps
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Jessica has over a decade of training and four years of professional performance experience in Flamenco.
Between 2011-2015, Baynes toured with Sabor Anadaluz Flamenco Company, Novamenco the band, and DesiDance.
Jessica has guest taught Flamenco for the San Diego Ballet Summer Intensive, Barlow Arts Conservatory Summer Intensive, University of Utah School of Dance, Weber State University Department of Dance, San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, and the National Dance School of Panamá .
Jessica has been the resident Flamenco technique instructor for Ballet West for the past 3 years.
Movement Mentor
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Jessica founded Healing in Motion Dance which teaches rehabilitative ballet classes to participants at University of Utah Health with neurological conditions such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and traumatic brain injury.
Jessica’s research and field work in adaptive dance have been featured by United Nations Civil Society, National Dance Education Organization, TEDx, and International Association for Dance Medicine & Science.
She currently teaches adaptive dance for children with special needs for Movement Mentor at Ballet West.
K-12 Creative Movement
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Baynes holds a 600-hour Authentic Pilates™ Teacher Certification from the United States Pilates Association and the New York Pilates Studio©.
Jessica taught classical Pilates mat and reformer to ballet majors while on faculty at the University of Utah Department of Ballet.
She currently teaches Pilates mat to the students of Ballet West and offers private lessons in the community upon request.