About
Jennifer is an award-winning choreographer, performer and director working internationally across mass movement, commercial, theatre and socially engaged projects.
Born and raised in the Yukon, and now over 20 years living in the UK, she has been getting people together to dance since she was five years old.
Jennifer Irons likes two things: a microphone and a dancefloor. Sometimes both at once. Whether she’s choreographing mass movement with hundreds of strangers or rapping the history of contemporary dance in a one-woman show (yes, really), her work often dives into identity, home and belonging. She asks Big Questions—but with heart, humour, and the occasional rogue squirrel, because who says the answer to life isn’t a badass dance move?
She made her first show at the age of 4 when she encouraged (read: bossed around) the neighbourhood kids into performing at her parents' dinner party. This kicked off a career in getting people together to dance and ruining her parents' social lives for the next decade.
She’s an award-winning choreographer, director, writer, comedian, performer, and probably a few other things she doesn’t admit to (she says she’s sorry about that time she taught Boris Johnson how to dance). Jennifer has splashed her creativity across film, TV, theatre, outdoor spectacles, site-specific weirdness, and anywhere else that usually has a ‘no dancing’ sign.
Her solo show Dancestory took audiences on a time-traveling dance history trip, and Yukon Ho!—a comedy cabaret survival guide, featured a one-legged can-can and deathy sing-alongs . It was like a TED Talk if TED were drunk and wearing snowshoes. The show killed at the Edinburgh Fringe and even caught the eye of Olivia Colman’s Screenshot, which is basically the Netflix of "things that are actually good." Her latest creation is a hilariously dark identity crisis on wheels featuring dancing salmon, German techno and colonialism. Bad Immigrant is a roller disco about immigration. Obvs.
When she’s not tap-dancing on the fourth wall (that’s a lie she can’t tap dance), Jen is choreographing feature films (Hero), winning MVAs (Best Choreography for Wave Machines), and directing Big Shows with mass movement pieces for folks like Akram Khan Company and Complicité. She also mentors and supports the next generation of artists at places like Trinity Laban and Sadler’s Wells.
Jennifer is the Co-Artistic Director of MakeAmplify, an award-winning artist-tech collective that throws massive, outdoor, immersive art parties—often for people who never get invited to the usual ones. Their work has lit up places like the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Hull City of Culture, proudly proclaiming that art belongs to everyone, and should be loud, bold, and a little weird.
She is also founder of ironINC In Africa, a cultural exchange and social development program working in partnership with local organisations in Africa and the Middle East since 2009, supported by Goethe, l’Institut Français, and the British Council.
Jennifer serves on the Board of Trustees at the Gate Theatre, Engagement Associate for Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, and part of the 2025 cohort of the Global Leaders Institute Executive MBA in Arts for Social Innovation—because she decided world domination should be properly managed.
Before all this art stuff, she worked in music and extreme sports. She’s currently scheming a Roller Dance Academy called the House of Irons, coming soon to ruin a dinner party near you.
