Biography
Cameron Fraser-Monroe is a choreographer, director, and member of the Tla'amin First Nation whose work spans dance, theatre, and screen. He began Ukrainian dancing at age three in Vernon, BC, and later trained with World Champion Hoop Dancer Dallas Arcand and studied Grass Dance with Elder Mollie Bono, a foundation in First Nations movement practices he continues to honour and share.
A graduate of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School on the RWB Alumni Scholarship, Cameron has performed with companies and at festivals across the globe, including Dancers of Damelahamid at the Kia Mau Festival in New Zealand and the International Festival Cervantino, Jacob's Pillow, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet at the National Arts Centre, and the Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada.
As a choreographer, Cameron has received commissions from an impressive range of companies and festivals: The National Ballet of Canada, Royal Winnipeg Ballet and RWB Aspirants, Fall for Dance Festival at New York City Centre, Ballet BC Annex, Ballet Kelowna, Winnipeg Summer Dance Collective, Whim W'Him Seattle, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto, Artist's Climate Collective, Transformation Cabaret at the Cultch, and both PULSE and Indigenous Day Live! on APTN, among others.
As an educator, Cameron has taught across Turtle Island (North America), most recently as a Guest Lecturer at Bard College's Centre for Indigenous Studies in New York, and has led grass dance and movement workshops at the National Theatre School and James Thomson Elementary in qathet.
Trained at the Toronto Actors Studio and in the Linklater Method at the National Theatre School of Canada, Cameron voiced the lead in Level Up with Kevin Loring and holds a principal role in Bones of Crows, the celebrated limited series and feature film that premiered at TIFF 2022, airing on CBC and APTN.
Cameron has served six years as Artistic Director of the Winnipeg Summer Dance Collective, expanding access to dance in downtown Winnipeg. In the 2023–24 season he became Choreographer-in-Residence at the RWB, their first in over 20 years, and currently holds the roles of Associate Artist at Ballet Kelowna and Artist-in-Residence at the National Theatre School of Canada.