Drew Jacoby

Drew Jacoby (born, Boise, Idaho, September 2, 1984) is a principal guest artist with Dutch National Ballet.

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. In 2007 she moved to New York CIty and has 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.

She has danced with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and received the Princess Grace Award 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.

External links

Official website Jacoby & Pronk Facebook page

Morphoses website Facebook page

• Archive film of Drew Jacoby and Rubinald Pronk performing Rhapsody Fantaisie in 2010 at Jacob's Pillow

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