Ry Jackson (he/they) is an emerging artist based on unceded, ancestral, and occupied xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ lands, otherwise known as Vancouver, Canada. Their practice involves the coalescence of dance, theatre, and song. Ry is excited about movement as an embodied vessel for worldmaking, finding joy in encountering the many characters and selves that arise through dance.

Ry has had the pleasure of performing in works by Action at a Distance (Vanessa Goodman), Rob Kitsos, Dani Mackenzie Long and Kaya Tsurumi. Recently graduated from Modus Operandi Contemporary Dance Program (under the direction of Tiffany Tregarthen, David Raymond, Kate Franklin, and Maiko Miyauchi), they have also performed works by Ella Rothschild, Yi-Chun Liu, Zahra Shahab, Kate Franklin, Mariko Kakizaki, Spenser Theberge and Brandon Alley among others. As an emerging choreographer his work has been presented in Edmonton, Vancouver, and Oxford – at Nextfest, What Lab, Boombox, and DANSOX, respectively.