Jade Hackett

Jade is a choreographer, actress, artistic director and movement director from east London.

After having a long history performing with hip hop theatre companies like Boy Blue Entertainment’s The Pied Piper, ZooNation’s Into the Hoods, The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, Some Like It HipHop and Sylvia, she gradually moved onto theatre acting in such plays such as Nine Night directed by Roy Alexander Weise and A Monster Calls directed by Sally Cookson to name a few.

She was soon able to blend her two greatest loves in theatre and dance by becoming a choreographer and movement director within these spaces. She currently provides choreography for Hex :The National Theatre and associate choreographer for Get Up Stand Up: The Bob Marley West End Musical, Sylvia: The Old Vic and movement direction in various other plays and artistic pieces.

She describes her own personal work as ‘dance activism’. She finds it important that she creates socially and politically conscious work about the black diaspora but also simultaneously creating work that also that centres around love, joy and healing too. She comments that “both ends of the spectrum are equally a revolution act and the spaces that I would like my art to hold.”