Jade Manns is a Canadian choreographer and dancer based in New York and a co-founder of Pageant, an artist-run performance space in Brooklyn. Named one of Dance Magazine’s 2026 “25 to Watch”, her work has been presented by Danspace Project, New York Live Arts, Movement Research at the Judson Church and PAGEANT among others. Jade has received support from The New York State Council for the Arts, The Foundation for Contemporary Art (FCA Emergency Grant), The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, NYU Artist Development Program for Dance and Kino Saito Arts Center. She was a 2024/2025 New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Artist and is currently the inaugural Choreographic Fellow for the Martha Hill Dance Fund Mesh Fellowship.
As a performer Jade has worked with artists such as Evvie Allison, Kim Brandt, Ayano Elson, Phoebe Berglund, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Luis Lara Malvacias, Alexa West, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Boychild, Cherrie Yu and Rosario Zorraquin.
Jade is an alumna of the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and holds a BFA in dance with a minor in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.