Jade Hackett

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 and will this year take on the Christmas show underneath director Nicholai La Barrie 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. Bringing hip-hop theatre ideas to establishments such as that National Theatre, Old Vic, Sheffield Crucible, Hampstead theatre and the RSC to name but a few. She continues to develop herself and next year will be going into direction.

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.”