Jessie Lee Thorne (she/they) is a choreographer and filmmaker whose work spans live performance, film, and commercial contexts. Moving fluidly between these worlds, her practice investigates how movement and image can create connection across artistic disciplines and cultural boundaries.

As a director and choreographer, Thorne has collaborated with music artists such as RY X, Banks, Bishop Briggs, and David Archuleta, alongside institutions and companies including Nowness, Universal Pictures, The Getty Museum, and TED.

Her award-winning film Topia (2022), commissioned by Boston Moving Arts, was named Best Dance Film at Paris Play Film Festival, Best Poetic Film at Lonely Wolf International, and received the Visionary Award at kNOwBOX Dance Film Festival. The work went on to premiere as a live dance-theater production.

Recent commissions include an evening-length work for MashUp Dance Company and a new creation for Backhausdance and The Boston Conservatory, as well as a short dance film commission for Orange County School of the Arts.

Her performance career has taken her across the globe with Walter Matteini, Micaela Taylor’s TL Collective, Margot Gelber, Dolly Sfeir and more, touring internationally for 10 years.

“Thorne’s work bridges the poetic and the visceral, dissolving the line between screen and stage. It is dance as cinema, cinema as choreography.”