Cameron Fraser-Monroe is a choreographer and director, and a member of the Tla’amin First Nation.  At three years old he started Ukrainian dancing in Vernon, BC, and he was privileged to receive several years of training and performance with World Champion Hoop Dancer Dallas Arcand and studied Grass Dance with Elder Mollie Bono.

Since graduating from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School on the RWB Alumni Scholarship, he has performed with many companies including Dancers of Damelahamid at Kia Mau Festival in New Zealand and the International Cervantino Festival, at Jacob’s Pillow Festival, with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet at the National Arts Centre, and with the Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada, among others.

As a choreographer Cameron has received commissions from the National Ballet of Canada, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Fall for Dance Festival NYC, Ballet Kelowna, Winnipeg Summer Dance Collective, Whim W’Him Seattle, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto, Royal Winnipeg Ballet Aspirants, Artist’s Climate Collective, Transformation Cabaret at the Cultch, and both PULSE and Indigenous Day Live! on APTN, among others. He continues to practice and present Hoop Dance.

He has taught across Turtle Island, most recently as a Guest Lecturer at Bard College Centre for Indigenous Studies in New York.  He has also taught grass dance to the New Pathways Indigenous students at the National Theatre School, and run dance workshops at James Thomson Elementary in qathet.

For the past six years Cameron has served as Artistic Director of the Winnipeg Summer Dance Collective, making dance more accessible in downtown Winnipeg. In the 2023-24 season he was appointed Choreographer-in-Residence at the RWB, their first in over 20 years. This season Cameron is the Associate Artist at Ballet Kelowna, and the Artist-in-Residence at L’École Nationale de Théâtre/National Theatre School of Canada.