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Drew Jacoby | |
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| Born | September 2, 1984 Boise, Idaho, US |
| Years active | 2002-present |
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| Current group | Royal Ballet of Flanders |
| Former groups | Alonzo King LINES Ballet Nederlands Dans Theater |
Drew Jacoby (born September 2, 1984) is an American contemporary ballet dancer. As of 2020, she is a principal dancer of Royal Ballet of Flanders. [1]
Jacoby was born in Boise, Idaho in 1984. She trained at the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. [1]
In 2002, at age 17, Jacoby joined Alonzo King LINES Ballet in San Francisco, at the invitation of Alonzo King. [2] While at the Lines Ballet, Jacoby became a principal dancer and had numerous original works created on her by King. [3] In 2005, she joined Sylvie Guillem's Japan tour, which she danced with dancers from The Royal Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet. [4]
In 2007 she moved to New York City to begin her freelance career, [5] and market herself independently from a ballet company. [6] In 2008, she formed an independent dance duo Jacoby & Pronk with Complexions Contemporary Ballet dancer Rubinald Pronk. The dual has danced with Dutch National Ballet and Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. [4] [7]
Jacoby danced with Nederlands Dans Theater from 2012 to 2015. [4] Her partnership with Pronk therefore ended. [8] She joined the Royal Ballet of Flanders as a principal dancer in 2015, where she danced works by Pina Bausch, William Forsythe and Maurice Béjart, and worked with choreographers such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Jonah Bokaer. [1] [4] In 2019, Jacoby returned to the US to perform at Maria Kochetkova's solo program, Catch Her If You Can at the Joyce Theater. The program also featured works choreographed by Jacoby, danced by herself and Kochetkova. [9]
Jacoby's repertory with the Royal Ballet of Flanders includes: [1]
Jacoby has appeared in several films and videos, including the short film I Will Fall For You, directed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Woodkid. [10] [11] Jacoby portrayed American dancer and theatrical pioneer Loie Fuller in the 2019 film Radioactive , starring Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley. [12] [13]
Source: [4]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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| 2019 | Radioactive | Loie Fuller | Marjane Satrapi | |
| 2017 | I Will Fall For You | Herself | Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Woodkid | Video short |
| 2012 | Figure Studies | Herself | David Michalek, Razor Rocco Rizzotti | Video short |
| 2010 | Catfish | Dancer: Morphoses | Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman |
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