Dance

Drew Jacoby

Initial PGF Award: Dance Fellowship, 2005
Additional PGF Awards: 2008 Special Project Award

Drew Jacoby, hailed "guest dance goddess" by Ballet-Dance Magazine, is from Boise, Idaho. She received her training at the School of American Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet. While at PNB, she performed works by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli, and Michael Smuin. At 17, Drew joined Lines Ballet in San Francisco, where she was made a principal dancer and had works created on her by award-winning choreographer Alonzo King. She was a guest star in Sylvie Guillem's 2005 Japan tour, performing featured roles in ballets by Sir Kenneth MacMillan and Alberto Alonso. Since moving to New York City in 2007, she has had works created for her by acclaimed choreographers Lar Lubovitch and Dwight Rhoden. While dancing with Complexions Contemporary Ballet for a portion of 2007, she was featured in William Forsythe's Herman Schmerman pas de deux alongside Desmond Richardson. A Princess Grace Award winner, a Level 1 Award recipient from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and Dance Magazine's "It" Girl, Drew is known for her "sumptuous extensions and powerhouse attack." (Dance Magazine)