Jessie McCall

Artistic Curator (Dance)

Jessie is a freelance dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer and filmmaker living in Auckland. She graduated UNITEC with a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts majoring in Contemporary Dance, and studied contemporary technique and choreography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the USA. She has choreographed and performed in various festivals including Short & Sweet, Tempo, NZ Fringe, The Producing Project, and received a Tempo Dance Festival award for choreography in 2010. As a performer she has danced in work by artists including Katie Burton, Kelly Nash, Michael Parmenter, Shona McCullagh, Malia Johnston & Sarah Foster-Sproull. Jessie is the founder of All You Can Eat Productions and current Artistic Director of Pointy Dog Dance Co. She particularly enjoys glitter, marshmallows, depressing documentaries and 80s music.

Jessie is stoked to be joining the Short+Sweet team this year as the diversity of the artists involved grants a rich opportunity to curate cohesive and engaging evenings of dance. She is excited to assist Auckland dance artists of all sorts to make the most of the platform that Short+Sweet offers to both emerging and established artists, and work alongside the great teams across dance, theatre and song.