Jessie Thompson

Jessie Thompson is a dance artist from Dublin who specialises in hip hop and contemporary dance styles, collaborating extensively with theatre companies and musicians. She has presented work in Dublin Dance Festival, Dance2 Connect Festival, Culture Night, Top8 Street Dance Battle and Edinburgh Fringe Festival where she received a standing ovation for her sensational live dance piece CRAWLER.

While at the CCI, Jessie will develop a full-length dance work, Missing Men, that uses music, text and humour as a lens into people’s lived experiences of figuratively and literally missing men.


Supported by the Walton Masters Family, the CCI and Dublin Fringe Festival