Jared Williams is a visual artist, dance-improvisor and dance-arts curator/producer. He served on the board of directors at Earthdance and has studied throughout the United States with dance-artists such as Frey Faust, Heidi Henderson, Chris Aiken, Nancy Stark Smith, K.J. Holmes and others and currently teaches Contact Improvisation in Boston. In 2015 he founded New Movement Collaborative, an organization dedicated to the cultivation of contemporary dance in Boston with fellow artist Sarah Mae Gibbons including their flagship event Lion's Jaw performance + dance festival.