Originally from Treaty 4 territory Saskatchewan, Jeanette creates work that reflects Nêhiyaw/Métis cosmology within the context of contemporary dance, Indigenous performance, and Indigenous futurity. Weaving together intercultural collaboration, sovereign artistic practices, and embodied research, Jeanette explores emergence, our relationship to the natural and Spirit world, and Ancestral knowledge. Their practice is intergenerational and vocational; it’s a living and lived experience. Jeanette has self-presented and been programmed at theatres and festivals across Turtle Island and internationally.
Her newest ensemble BOLT for 4 performers, premieres 2026 at Vancouver International Dance Festival and Festival TransAmériques, Montreal. Her solo Kisiskâciwan premiered in Vancouver 2022, and toured to 13 cities nationally, and to Germany and Australia. Her ensemble work Kwê was presented at Matriarchs Uprising and Dance in Vancouver 2021/22. Jeanette is the Artistic Associate and collaborator at Raven Spirit Dance, and currently collaborates with Lara Kramer Danse. She facilitates experiential movement workshops from Indigenous worldview, workshops on de-colonial perspectives in the arts, and is a Métis dance and cultural knowledge carrier. She resides as a guest on the Ancestral and unceded Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ/, and Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territories, colonially known as Vancouver.