Originally from lutruwita/Tasmania, Jesper is an independent multidisciplinary artist, dancer, choreographer, teacher, and sound designer based in naarm/Melbourne. He studied dance at the Victorian College of the Arts under the guidance of internationally acclaimed artists such as Julie Ann Minaai, Anna Smith, Kialea-Nadine Williams, and Professor Carol Brown. Jesper has learned from leading practitioners, including Jo Lloyd, Melanie Lane, Phillip Adams, Stephanie Lake, Rachel Coulson, James Batchelor, Lee Serle, Kyall Shanks, Georgia Rudd, Siobhan McKenna, Amber McCartney, Israel Aloni, Jenni Large, Caitlin Comerford, Gabriel Comerford, Adam Wheeler, Brooke Stamp, Rebecca Jensen, Tra Mi Dinh, Michael Smith, Ashleigh Musk, Kimball Wong, Benjamin Hurley, Jack Ziesing, Chloe Chignell, Joel Bray, Yuiko Masukawa, and Oliver Savariego. In 2022, Jesper received a $2,000 Gillespie Award from Tasdance, awarded by Jenny Kinder.

Jesper has extensive choreography and performance knowledge, previously a part of Stompin Youth Dance Company (2015-2022). Through Stompin he worked with artists such as Kyall Shanks (Tasdance and Yellow Wheel), Bec Reid on ‘4Site’ 2022, Gabriel Comerford (Tasdance and GUTS Dance) and Joshua Thomson (Legs on the Wall) on ‘HQ’ 2022, Jenni Large (Tasdance) and Jack Ziesing (Dancenorth and Stephanie Lake Company) on ‘All Expenses Paid’ 2021, Yolande Brown (Bangarra Dance Theatre) on ‘Nowhere’ 2019, Lucas Stibbard on ‘ESC’ 2018, James Batchelor (Berlin and Australia) on ‘Mirror Mirror’ 2018, Adam Wheeler (Tasdance) on ‘Fully Grown’ 2017. Most recently Jesper performed in Rikia Bell’s ‘(un)tamed’ 2024, Phillip Adams’ ‘Fountain’ in RISING Festival 2025, Jo Lloyd’s ‘Happening #3 Duo Agitato’ at Studio 24 2025, Rheannan Port and Wirastuti Susilaningtyas’ (Tututty) ‘Diamond Rain’ 2025, Melanie Lane’s ‘UNDER OATH’ 2025, and currently in development for a new work, ‘Post hoc’ choreographed by Jo Lloyd, premiering in the 2025 season of ‘PIECES’ commissioned by Lucy Guerin Inc. and University of Melbourne Arts and Culture (UMAC).

Jesper’s choreographic work has been presented in Mona Foma Festival in both Launceston and nipaluna/Hobart, Junction Arts Festival, and Vibestown’s Party In The Apocalypse 2021. His most notable choreographic work is ‘Rival Planes’ co-created with Sage Price and mentored by Ashleigh Musk (GUTS Dance) and Michael Smith (Dancenorth) in Mona Foma 2022. And his most recent choreographic work ‘SsYiNnCk’ co-created with Flynn Dakis, Toni Stathopoulos, and Sarah Ceraso, presented in Muse Festival 2025.

Jesper’s current work focuses on sound design and using the body as a vessel for multidisciplinary contexts. Often utilising social constructs and pop culture to inform movement, sound, and clothing to create a harmonious symbiosis of elements to generate an atmosphere of complex work.