Jade Manns is a choreographer, dancer and co-founder of the artist-run performance space PAGEANT in New York. Her work has been presented at Danspace Project, New York Live Arts, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Sundays on Broadway at Weis Acres, New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival, The Provincetown Dance Festival, and PAGEANT among others. Jade has received support from 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 and minor in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.