Archives: Team Members

As an integrative health and movement professional, Jessamy dedicated to empowering individuals to achieve their wellness goals through a holistic approach. Her extensive training includes a 300-hour yoga certification, Pilates (both mat and apparatus), personal training, and specialized certifications as an exercise recovery specialist and group fitness trainer. Additionally, She is an integrative nutritionist and has expertise in Zumba, barre, African dance, meditation, mindfulness, and breathwork. Her mission is to inspire and support others on their journey to health and vitality, fostering personal growth and transformation in every session.

Genève Brossard has been running a grassroots boxing program here in the Berkshires for the past 7 years, coaching kids and teens, adult newcomers, and competing athletes.

She is delighted to be partnering with Berkshire Pulse for Youth Boxing. This rhythmic sport can be a deeply positive presence in a young person’s life-providing mastery, confidence, community, and health.

Genève is a 2 x New York Golden Gloves and an NY State Empire Games Champion. She was an athlete on the USA Elite Women’s Boxing team in 2006, and represented the USA at the Pan-American Games, among other tournaments. She was also the first woman to represent the London Lynn Boxing Club, the oldest club in England- established in 1892, and was a London ABA tournament finalist.

Genève has devoted much of her life to boxing, and she loves coaching as a way share the embodied joy, power, freedom, and fun to be found in this ancient sport!

Laura Coe (Chickasaw) is a dancer and choreographer based in Chatham, New York repping Harvard Breakers Crew and Double Yolk Collective. She has performed work by Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Bill T. Jones, Jill Johnson, Sidra Bell, LROD, Isadora Wolfe, and Corpi di donne, and received commissions from New England Conservatory, Analog By Choice, and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. She was recently an Art OMI 2024 Resident, and began collaboration for a project with Alli Ross and John Bechtold at Mass MoCA. She currently teaches dance for the Opheum Dance Program, the Funk Box Studio, and Berkshire Pulse. 

Benjamin Court is dancer, musician, writer, and educator in Western Massachusetts.

I grew up in Western New York, where I played in several punk and experimental music groups. From 2010-2020, I lived in Los Angeles, where I studied Musicology and received my Ph.D. (UCLA, 2017). My graduate research explored the politics of musical “amateurism” – music by individuals who claimed not to know how to play music, but nevertheless became musicians. Among other topics, I have published articles about the semiotics of punk in the UK, racial formation in rap and punk in New York City during the 1970s, and the Scratch Orchestra’s politics of music education. I have also taught several courses in music, critical theory, and broadcast media for UCLA and Woodbury University. While In Los Angeles, I recorded music with the Unthem collective and began learning to dance Chicago Footwork. In 2021, I joined the Chicago Footwork crew Creation Global and began releasing self-produced Footwork music. My current projects focus on bringing together Chicago Footwork dancers and producers around the globe, as well as creating new educational opportunities for artists from Chicago to share their craft. In 2021, I joined the staff at Berkshire Pulse, where I love to take classes in music, hip hop, modern, and contemporary!