Jesse Fraser was born in Saskatoon, Canada. He started his ballet training at private Brenda’s School of Dance in Saskatoon in 1998 and went to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School in 2005, where he graduated with distinction in 2009. He was part of the Aspirant Program of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School from 2009 to 2010 and also danced at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
In the 2010/11 season Jesse Fraser joined the Stuttgart Ballet as an apprentice. One season later he became a member of the Corps de ballet.
For the Noverre-Society’s „Young Choreographers“ he created one choreography: Back and Forth premiered in May 2012 and was danced by eight Stuttgart Ballet dancers.
REPERTOIRE
Solo Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet- Das Fräulein von S. (Christian Spuck): Count Miossens, colonel in the King's guard
- Gaîté Parisienne (Maurice Béjart): Friend, Ballerino
- Krabat (Demis Volpi): Michal
- Orphée et Euridice (Staging, Choreography: Christian Spuck): one of the Amor boys
- Swan Lake (John Cranko): Cavalier of the Princess of Spain
- The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier): Manon's lover
Specially created Roles- Black Breath (Marco Goecke)
- Dancer in the Dark (Marco Goecke/Louis Stiens)
- Das Fräulein von S. (Christian Spuck)
- Krabat (Demis Volpi)
- Piece untitled (Viktor Plotnikov)
Specially created Roles at Noverre-Society: Young Choreographers- Are you as big as me? (Roman Novitzky)
- Gern geschehen (Miles Pertl)
- Rolo (Miles Pertl)
- Symph (Katarzyna Kozielska)
Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet- Bolero (Maurice Béjart)
- Don Quijote (Maximiliano Guerra)
- Gaîté Parisienne (Maurice Béjart)
- Il Concertone (Mauro Bigonzetti)
- Initialen R.B.M.E. (John Cranko)
- La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss after August Bournonville): a.o. Witch, James' friend
- Le Sacre du Printemps (Glen Tetley)
- Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck)
- Onegin (John Cranko)
- Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
- Swan Lake (John Cranko)
- The Lady and the Fool (John Cranko)
- The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier): Arthur a.o.
- The Sleeping Beauty (Márcia Haydée after Marius Petipa)
- The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)
Corps de ballet Roles with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet - Swan Lake (Marius Petipa): demi solo
- The Nutcracker (Galina Yordanova, Nina Menon): Waltz of the Flowers (demi solo)
Corps de ballet Roles at the Banff Center for the Arts - Who cares (George Balanchine)
- Wings of Wax (Jiří Kylián)
OWN CHOREOGRAPHIES
- Back and Forth World premiere at Noverre-Society: Young Choreographers on May 23rd, 2012, Stuttgart Ballet