Drew Jacoby

Drew Jacoby (born September 2, 1984 in Boise, Idaho) is an independent contemporary ballet artist in New York City. In August 2012, Drew was to be join Nederlands Dans Theater in The Hague.[1]

Career

She trained at the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. At PNB she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin. Drew joined Lines Ballet in San Francisco at age 17, where she was made principal dancer and had works created on her by Alonzo King. During her time with Lines Ballet she performed in works such as Handel and Following the Subtle Current Upstream, both of which were choreographed by Alonzo King. In 2007 she moved to New York CIty to begin her freelance career,[2] and market herself independently from a ballet company. During her time in New York City she had works made on her by Lar Lubovitch and Dwight Rhoden, whose Complexions Contemporary Ballet she danced with that year, performing William Forsythe’s Herman Schmerman with Desmond Richardson. In 2007 she formed independent dance duo Jacoby & Pronk with fellow Complexions Contemporary Ballet dancer Rubinald Pronk. The duo was featured on the cover of the August 2009 Dance Magazine. She has worked with many choreographers such as Mia Michaels, Edwaard Liang, and Emily Molnar. She has also performed as a principal guest artist with the Dutch National Ballet.

She has danced with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and received the Princess Grace Award[3] and a National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Level 1 Award. She was Dance Magazine’s “It” Girl and performed at City Center's Fall for Dance 2011 in a new work by Andrea Miller (commissioned by FFD) and in Pontus Lidberg's Faune.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.jacobypronk.com/go/home.html
  2. ↑ http://www.drewjacoby.com/
  3. ↑ Drew Jacoby. Princess Grace Foundation-USA.
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