Jessie Garon is a performer and choreographer working in contemporary dance theatre. They are a graduate of Dance Arts Institute after which they interned for Ate9 Dance Company (Los Angeles) under Artistic Director Danielle Agami. 

Since 2014, they have participated primarily in collaborative processes blending performative forms. Their work marries training in dance, clown, and voice. They have collaborated with artists such as Brandy Leary/Anandam Dance Theatre, Jennifer Dallas/Kemi Contemporary Dance Projects, Serge Bennathan, Lemi Ponifasio/MAU (New Zealand), Clarice Lima/Futura (Brazil) Sasha Ivanochko, Sara Porter and Jocelyn Todd. As an interpreter they are interested in relationship; the intersection between their movement/body/experience and the people/places/sounds that it traverses. 

These dual roles as choreographer and performer have taught her an intuitive and empathetic approach to working. Jessie Garon is a 2024 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prizes nominee. Their latest creation, everything i wanted to tell you won multiple Dora Mavor Moore awards including Outstanding Production, Outstanding Choreography and Outstanding Performance. 

Garon identifies as queer and female, is of settler ancestry and a millennial raised in the birth of the social media and internet era. Originally from a family crop and cattle farm in Alberta, themes of gender, labour, hospitality, connection and identity permeate their work, often emerging not as direct content but as underlying inquiries. They are interested in how performance can create possible worlds — blueprints for the future — and offer audiences shared, live experiences that invite empathy, curiosity, and a disruption of normative narratives around the body and belonging.